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What is Dell PowerEdge R?
Dell's PowerEdge R is a line of rack servers.
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Dell's PowerEdge R is a line of rack servers.
Reviewers rate Usability and Support Rating highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of Dell PowerEdge R are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 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 14, 2023
Dell PowerEdge R Review
Score 10 out of 10
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We use Dell PowerEdge R servers as web servers and email servers to store students' data. This server is competitively priced. It provides a quick return on investment. Their service is good as they provide next business day onsite support and service. It uses SSD for OS and hence the failure rate is low, so it provides high uptime.
- Dell is direct
- Cost-effective offering good ROI
- Up to even 8 years post-warranty spares support
- Driver support for all OS
- Liquid cooling of the servers can reduce heat generation.
- From NBD warranty, they can move to a same-day warranty.
- Preventive maintenance during the warranty period.
- Uptime
- Low Cost
- Post-warranty support
- Very positive impact on ROI
Dell has an 8GB RAID card, while the competition has only a 4GB RAID card. Value for money with a good Return on Investment. Good service during the warranty period and post-warranty. The failure rate is less for Dell than when compared to HPE. Hence has high uptime. Dell is direct whereas HPE is through a partner.
500
Educational institution
4
IT support
- Web servers
- Mail servers
- Data servers
- During pandemic, support was poor.
- Remote Management
No
- Scalability
- Ease of Use
Ease of use. It's the best RAID card.
I wouldn't change it.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
- RAID configuration changes
- Rack installation
- KVM switch connection with different interfaces
Yes, to have good support.
No
During installation.
- BIOS upgrade
- RAID configuration
- Driver installation
- Mother board replacement
No
We have used Dell PowerEdge R series Servers in our organization to support multiple Application platforms that runs on individual physical machines. The Product ranges offered supports ecosystems which suits our budget. We have even created excellency centre in our organization which runs multiple work loads requiring variety of physical configurations. Hence recommend Dell PowerEdge R Servers
- Supports both Legacy and latest Work Loads
- Support multiple Virtualization Platforms
- Require very less management
- Easy BIOS set up
- Offer Single GUI to monitor multiple machines
- Susceptible to tough DC environment
- Getting DSAT report remotely does becomes a challenge sometimes
- Server rebooting becomes an issue, it does not starts up easily
- Server heats up sometimes a lot, emitting lot of noice
- We can access your servers anywhere, anytime from your mobile device with the Dell EMC Open Manage Mobile App.
- we can proactively resolve issues w by leveraging technology from Pro Support Plus and Support Assist
- Support multiple Work loads
- Reduced cost of management has overall impact on Manpower
- Reduced Space consumption had an impact of cooling effect and electricity consumption
- Single window management and installation even remotely reduced the operational cost exponentially
- Overall ROI has been approximate 53%
Better Management, Better ROI, Better Supply Chain System ensures timely delivery even in recent times where Supply Chain has become a big issue. Also ensuring timely project completion leading to chain effect like customer able to utilize their budget within timelines and we getting our payment in time.
February 03, 2022
Rack Servers -- Go for Dell PowerEdge R!!
Dell PowerEdge R series are very handy and easy to deploy rack-based servers. I am using Dell PowerEdge R710, R720 & R730 for more than 5 years. We use these rack servers as Hypervisor i.e., VMware ESXi as well as a backup server. Most of the virtual infrastructure is running on this series. You can use these rack servers as standalone ones, or like a hypervisor, etc.
- Reliable memory feature is unique.
- Easy in RAID configuration where we need OS and storage partitions.
- PowerEdge iDRAC are way more easier to administer.
- iDRAC interface can have some more shortcuts.
- Getting DSAT report remotely becomes challenging sometimes.
- Virtualization compatibility.
- Proactive alerts.
- Easier to manage by IT resources.
- Perfect for standalone cases.
Both have different prospects, I have been working with Dell mostly, hence always prefer Dell.
February 03, 2022
Dell PowerEdge R series: Our experience in a few words
We are using Dell PowerEdge R series servers in our production environment. We have 6 of them in a vSAN cluster located in only one location. We made the decision of buying them helped by Dell Consulting services. They helped us to simulate our main load and to project how that load would best fit into their hardware.
- Low part incident.
- Fast hardware delivery.
- Centralize management VM.
- Not particularly found any worth mentioning.
- Some issues were fixed by firmware updates.
- They are very stable.
- Reliability.
- Security for our production databases.
- Fast customer support.
- We got ROI in just 6 months in, after implementing in.
- We are saving 70% in electricity costs after migrating.
- We have reduce management costs in 30% after migrating.
Against hp servers, Dell has outperformed them in terms of incidents regarding hardware memory parts. With the Dell PowerEdge R series servers we have not had any incidents regarding memory modules. On the other hand, with HP servers, we encountered a lot of failures regarding memory modules during the first year of implementation.