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Dell PowerEdge R

Dell PowerEdge R

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What is Dell PowerEdge R?

Dell's PowerEdge R is a line of rack servers.

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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. …
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Dell PowerEdge R Review

10 out of 10
September 14, 2023
We use Dell PowerEdge R servers as web servers and email servers to store students' data. This server is competitively priced. It provides …
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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 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
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Sudipta Banerjee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
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
Arvind Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use a Dell PowerEdge R as the primary storage server in our organization, as well as a SQL server. It is used across the whole organization and maintains the integrity of all data, providing shared drives for access by approximately 1,000 users.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
We use DellPower Edge R rack server for our projects and our customers for building compute platforms like standalone servers, virtualized rack servers, building private cloud top of the power edge rack server stacks. We deploy various security and networking applications and platforms on the dell power edge rack servers. We use these products for our own projects as well as resell, build and manage customer data center infrastructure build on the Dell PowerEdge R. These servers have great performance, cost and are energy-efficient.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Dell PowerEdge R servers for any requirement for traditional rack mount server compute and storage. Typically we'll use them for physical database servers, file sharing servers where significant storage is required with often the addition of hybrid storage (using Enmotus software) of hard disk and ssd combinations to deliver excellent i/o performance for a good price.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
September 24, 2020

My Dell are going Well

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Dell PE R710 servers in our data center. They provide resources for Drake Hyper-V virtualization.
Few of them also allocated for backup and DR. During time of usage they have showed mostly positive outcome.
They connected to corporate SAN and provide access to various applications for business needs. It is mostly Web and SQL servers.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Dell PowerEdge R servers as VMWare ESXi hosts to power all of our applications. From Production/UAT to Development and QA they are running on Power Edge servers. They provide us an affordable and stable hardware platform with enterprise grade service and support that's available when we need it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This server is being utilized for our Active Directory in 2 different sites. We are using R330 and R340 1U Rack. We required a simple, cost effective and slim profile server on top of our existing hyperconverged environment. For some reason we still believe that a physical AD is necessary.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Dell PowerEdge R for production, development, and testing in virtual environments. Each environment hosts applications from Databases, Web Servers to BI, and CRM applications on different Operating Systems and containers.
September 18, 2020

My Dell PowerEdge R Review

Yvonne Graber | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am a Dell channel partner and resell servers and workstations to small offices, medical and dental offices. It solves issues by having files centralized and on a domain. We use these servers so employees can share files view files and back up files. I have worked with Dell for years to customize the Power Edge servers to meet our clients needs.
Mostafa Dakam | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Zakarieya Abderoef | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Dell PowerEdge R servers at our client sites as physical hosts for running VMware ESX or Hyper-V Hypervisors. The organization's business critical applications within virtual machines (VMs) on the PowerEdge rack-mount servers. They are very powerful servers and can handle the most demanding business applications i.e. Databases, ERP, Business Intelligence, MS Exchange etc.
September 12, 2020

Great Servers

Ashley Beal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We are a reseller of Dell products which means we often sell Dell PowerEdge Servers to our customers. Every department in our company comes into contact with this product. Whether that be in the sales, marketing, finance, technicians, and the help desk.
September 12, 2020

Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We deploy our Dell PowerEdge servers company wide. They support all aspects of the company; especially as virtualization constantly evolves bringing in newer opportunities. It addresses many issues but the most valuable is demoing different software products or product testing before it is deployed throughout the company. It acts as a lab environment as well as supporting production infrastructure.
Vin Campbell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Hyler C Cooper | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
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