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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.
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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Verified User
- 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.
- 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
February 03, 2022
Rack Servers -- Go for Dell PowerEdge R!!
- 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.
February 03, 2022
Dell PowerEdge R series: Our experience in a few words
- 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.
November 16, 2020
Dell PowerEdge R--Reliability and Performance
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
- The servers are stable
- The servers are fault tolerant
- The servers are easily managed via IPMI
- The servers are easily upgraded and maintained
- I would like to see expanded use of AMD processors across the range
- I would like to see more storage options for NVME disks
- I would like to see improved memory compatibility
October 11, 2020
Dell PowerEdge R - very high performance and good ROI
- Dell PowerEdge R supports almost all the leading virtualization solutions.
- Dell PowerEdge R supports almost the entire range of the operating systems supported on x86 platform.
- Dell PowerEdge R servers are very cost competitive and can support long term.
- Highly efficient and performative.
- Support of Dell PowerEdge R servers from entry-level to top-level for higher storage inside, like DellPowerEdge Rack 740xd.
October 01, 2020
Dell PowerEdge R simply meets all our compute needs
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
- Price
- Reliability
- Dell Support
- Low admin overheads
- Fast delivery
- The time to support latest and largest hard disks could be better
September 26, 2020
Best in class for pricing, reliability and support
- 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.
September 24, 2020
My Dell are going Well
- PowerEdge R really well work for small/med hosting servers.
- MS SQL DBs are running well for such type of hardware.
- Dedicated backup servers are performing well on Dell servers.
- DRAC interface should be better designed to improve usability of management.
- Raid controllers sometimes have an issue with non-Dell disks.
- There is room to improve drivers for server support.
September 22, 2020
Great Flexible Stable Server
- Stable.
- Good service and support.
- Enterprise grade.
- Scalable.
- Flexible.
- Firmware Update Process could be improved.
September 21, 2020
Dell PowerEdge R is an Economical and Stable Server!
- 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.
September 18, 2020
Incredible Reliability and Performance
- Reliable
- Ease of use
- Firmware update is a breeze.
- Admin management is easy.
- This server should last you a good 7-8 years.
- Intuitiveness of the web interface
- 1-click update (similar to what Nutanix has) for firmware
- Mobile management
September 18, 2020
Solid product with bulletproof support
- Amazing support, and we can easily find replacement parts & great documentation.
- Good performance
- Great compatibility with virtualization solutions
- The product can be expensive for small business.
- Sometimes the replacement parts take too much time to arrive.
- The product lifecycle could be longer.
September 18, 2020
My Dell PowerEdge R Review
- The server takes up less space than the T server.
- Customization features
- Hot swapping of drives
- Various Raid configurations
- Pricing thru the years has not come down that much.
September 17, 2020
PowerEdge R as a virtualization hypervisor
- Good price - Compared to other vendors’ server platforms. In our scenario (virtualization) we found out PowerEdge offers the best price/vCPU and RAM ratio.
- Customizable - We were able to select optimal memory/disk capacity for our use case. Other platform's minimum requirements were above our needs, hence needlessly expensive.
- Good warranty and service - Our project did not involve creating a big cluster with a lot of spare capacity, so the next business day warranty came handy.
- Remote management - we use Linux, and the iDRAC management utilities support were better suited for Windows.
September 17, 2020
Impressive Performance Servers
- 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.
September 15, 2020
Dell PowerEdge Server Review
- Flexible CPU socket options i.e. 1 socket, 2 socket and 4 socket servers.
- The PowerEdge R portfolio includes servers for the branch (entry) to mid and enterprise servers for the datacentre to run most demanding workloads including HCI.
- Supports NVME drives for minimum latency.
- Sizing tools should updated and easily accessible.
- Offer higher scalability where you can scale up like with IBM Power Servers.
September 12, 2020
Great Servers
- Dell PowerEdge R is really good for companies that are looking for a very reliable server.
- I can't think of anything that they need to improve.
September 12, 2020
Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers
- Supports ESXi extremely well.
- Easy to find firmware updates.
- Ease of use and reliability.
- IDSDM modules seem to have a high failure rate.
- 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.
August 30, 2016
Dell PowerEdge R - Solid rack mount server
- 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.