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Dell's PowerEdge R is a line of rack servers.
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Dell's PowerEdge R is a line of rack servers.
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The most common users of Dell PowerEdge R are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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The Dell PowerEdge R series servers have proven to be versatile and reliable solutions for various use cases in production environments. With their ability to form vSAN clusters, these servers are commonly deployed as standalone servers or hypervisors. Customers have reported that the Dell PowerEdge R series servers are easy to deploy and highly customizable, offering a budget-friendly hardware fit for different industries.
One of the main use cases for these servers is running demanding business applications such as databases, ERP systems, business intelligence tools, and MS Exchange. Additionally, they are utilized in small offices, medical and dental offices, where they centralize files, establish file sharing domains, and serve as backup servers. The Dell PowerEdge R series servers are also commonly used for virtualization purposes, supporting various operating systems and containers. Their reliability, competitive pricing, and high uptime make them suitable choices for web and email servers.
Furthermore, these servers have been deployed for software product testing and demoing company-wide due to their support for virtualization solutions. They have also found applications in building compute platforms, deploying security and networking applications, and managing customer data center infrastructure. In addition to their primary storage and SQL server functions, customers appreciate the stability and enterprise-grade service and support provided by Dell PowerEdge R series servers.
Overall, the Dell PowerEdge R series servers offer a range of use cases across different industries. Their flexibility, performance, and cost-effectiveness make them valuable assets for businesses seeking stability and efficiency in their IT infrastructure.
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September 26, 2020
Best in class for pricing, reliability and support
Our organization has standardized on Dell PowerEdge servers for years and have had a generally positive experience. It offers the best pricing, support, and technology available without our region. The systems are also generally reliable, and the robust management tools have streamlined routine maintenance and monitoring within the local IT department.
- Support is best-in-class
- Pricing is competitive
- Reliability has been generally good.
- Technology and management tools has been impressive.
- Pricing for warranty extensions could be improved.
- Support for older/obsolete hardware could be improved.
- Lower maintenance costs and effort.
- Improved reliability/lower downtime.
- Lower total cost of ownership.
Support and pricing is significantly improved with our switch to Dell from HPE products.
September 21, 2020
Dell PowerEdge R is an Economical and Stable Server!
The PowerEdge R is a server that houses all of our files, including data, images, audio, and other media. We use PowerEdge R to manage the server and our 30+ employees. We allow and restrict those who has access to certain data. The server allows for Windows backup and password protection. The server allows multiple users to access the information remotely.
- Solid performance.
- Few reboots.
- Few maintenance issues.
- Interface could be improved upon.
- Better IOPS, i.e. the disc speed. That is the main limitation for scaling up the number of users.
- Increase GPU's and benchmarking.
- From the perspective of physical server consolidations, when servers spread across multiple branch and remote offices are gathered into a central data center, this simplification process provides ROI in several ways. One, the configuration control, restriction of server access.
- Reduce complexity and enable greater standardization of hardware purchases, which lowers costs.
- Increased security of the move are important.
- The costs of moves, add-ins, and changes are reduced, as well as the costs of travel time and maintenance.
- Migrating legacy operating systems to a newer version via rehosting brings similar ROI benefits when it comes to server consolidation.
Both systems are comparable.
September 17, 2020
Impressive Performance Servers
We have been using Dell PowerEdge servers for about 10 years. We have some of R740 and R440 at our company, and we use them for many purposes like Windows domain, application servers, VM systems, and other. We use the R740 for cloud applications and VMs, they came with a punch of storage slots and 2nd generation of Intel Xeon, these are quite reliable servers and have the smooth performance we rarely had issues with them. We use the R440 for domain controlling and applications.
- Great working performance.
- Redundancy for power and network connectivity.
- Produce less noise, Dell PowerEdge R are quiet servers.
- Easy access to the inside of the servers and upgrade.
- The need for increasing the performance may cost much.
- The older version has not much support or replacement parts.
- Facilitate our IT infrastructure.
- We could relay on virtualization and availability of VMs.
- The overall cost of the hardware considering the benefits were worthy.
We have used Sun Fire X4170 Servers before, they were reliable servers in terms of durability, but they always had issues were the servers are not responding or not booting, they also have higher response times for the individual VMs comparing to the PowerEdge R740 which have better performance and expandability and lower response times in all kinds of circumstances.
We currently have two Dell PowerEdge R devices running as EXHost servers for our VMware network. We have our load of virtual servers split between the two host devices, with a NetApp FAS2200 device on the backend housing all of the virtual files. We're running 128GB RAM on each device with 200GB local storage for additional failover and OS management. This has been our backbone for the last 7 years.
- Let me say -- stability, that's the key. Foundation is everything, and these servers are bedrock.
- Uptime -- I reboot twice per year, and I probably don't need to do that.
- Firmware updates -- Dell has done a good job over the years keeping these devices up to date.
- Easy maintenance + easy configuration -- mostly set it and forget it.
- The web interface is definitely lacking. I'm sure in the newer models this has been improved.
- I'd like VMWare to have greater controls over these servers -- that would simplify management.
- Positive impact -- our entire company software infrastructure runs on these servers. They have paid for themselves over and over in the years we have had them.
- Positive ROI -- they are still running and still running VERY WELL.
- Negative ROI -- I'd say it took the full payoff period before we saw any ROI at all. The initial outlay was rather extensive, not only to buy the hardware, but to have the IT people install and configure it.
Our IT consultant firm at the time of purchase recommended these servers as part of a fuller infrastructure upgrade plan that we undertook in preparation for a major ERP & CRM systems upgrade. We did entertain the other similar systems I mentioned, but we trusted the vendor and that worked out well for us. On that note, I can't really compare the Dell version to the others, so I'll leave it at that.
August 30, 2016
Dell PowerEdge R - Solid rack mount server
We exclusively run these servers in all our supported environments. We used to use them as physical servers and now they are all set up as ESXi hosts. They are usually set up with 8 locally attached hard drives that serve as the data stores for ESXi.
- Price vs. Performance. We run these servers for our customers with lower budgets. $6500 will get you a work horse capable of running at least 6 more VM guests.
- Highly configurable to suit your enviroment.
- Efficient on power. When replacing older servers, we typically see power consumption drop dramatically.
- Costs can be prohibitive for very small companies.
- Must purchase ProSupport to get enterprise level support.
- Less power consumption - Smaller UPS needed, increased runtime
- More computing power - Depending on your configuration, you can consolidate multiple servers to run on these
- More storage options
These are very comparable products. I cannot speak to the current line of HP servers, but the older ones we replace with the Dell servers are typically less efficient.