Dell PowerEdge R-Series Reviews

My main use case for everything that is Nutanix is VDI, and we also have the database server afterwards and RDS servers, with multiple use cases.

The standout feature for me is Dell's iDRAC management interface. It is significantly better than what some competitors offer. Since our data centers are located off-site, iDRAC provides us with full remote access to the entire system configuration, which is an essential advantage for our operations.

We have access to everything remotely at the iDRAC level, which is really good.

What I think could be improved about Dell PowerEdge R-Series is lower prices; otherwise, in terms of functionality, with the configuration we order, we have what we want, so I don't really have any improvement that quickly comes to mind.

I have been working in my current field since 2013, so it's been 12 years.

What distinguishes Dell PowerEdge R-Series servers compared to others is their reliability, as we have very few failures; apart from a disk from time to time or a memory stick from time to time, we never have failures on the servers.

Dell PowerEdge R-Series does help with the growth of my organization, as it's easy to order again and integrate into the existing cluster.

I have used technical support at some point.

My experience with technical support was very good, rated 9 out of 10.

They helped me with some hardware problems, specifically on hardware support.

The deployment of the servers involves several data centers, and with the XC series range, we deploy them according to our needs for Nutanix clusters, which are specific to the workload we're going to put on them, and we do the deployments with Nutanix tools to deploy the solutions on Dell PowerEdge R-Series.

In terms of the return on investment since we've had the system, it has not been particularly significant.

Before Dell PowerEdge R-Series, we considered adopting HPE, we conducted a side-by-side comparison before ultimately choosing Dell.

In the company, I work with the CNAF, which is the Family Allowance Funds, providing benefits to residents.

I didn't mention AI, but it is important for us to consider our AI initiatives.

At the moment, we are in testing for AI, similar to how we do tests on the cloud part, as we start defining the use cases a bit, and then, of course, there will be a study to switch to the on-premises part.

The company has about 1000 people.

Dell was chosen because it's historical, and on price and features too; they were the first on the XC series side, it was Dell, and we've stayed with them for 10 years.

We have performance metrics or indicators with Grafana and Prometheus behind our monitoring, which help us know if the system is working well.

In terms of time and ease, the servers are racked by the people who manage the data center, and then we access the iDRAC and do all the system configuration.

In the long term, I see that it can work for us; it's a good solution.

I would give this product an overall rating of 9 out of 10.

My role in using or managing Dell PowerEdge R-Series includes installing, marketing, selling, and maintenance. My company uses Dell PowerEdge R-Series for specific use cases such as storage servers, application priority, SAP, and all others including Active Directory.

The features of Dell PowerEdge R-Series that I appreciate the most include the remote maintenance, specifically iDRAC. Having this product benefits my company because there are many manufacturers, such as HP, and after experiencing Dell PowerEdge R-Series, the simplicity makes it very straightforward to manage and configure. Dell PowerEdge R-Series has supported growth and operational success because it is very reliable and a good manufacturer. Dell PowerEdge R-Series has features that specifically cater to the needs of small or medium companies.

I don't think I need to change anything about Dell PowerEdge R-Series.

I have been using Dell PowerEdge R-Series from the beginning, for 25 years.

The stability and reliability of the platform are very stable and reliable; that is why I am working with them.

I basically use the SMB client, so I don't need to add features or servers to increase the ability to extend; if I need to change a server, I just replace it.

When I have a problem or question, I call customer service, and they keep checking with me until the problem is solved. I would rate the customer service and technical support as a 10 out of 10.

Positive

I was using HP as another product in the past. I changed because I had a problem with the support for HP, and everything in HP requires adding features and isn't simple; the simplicity is not comparable.

The biggest return on investment for me when using Dell PowerEdge R-Series is that everything is working smoothly; I don't need to return to the customer to change parts.

My experience with the pricing, the setup cost, and the licensing is that, when compared to other manufacturers, the pricing is good.

Dell PowerEdge R-Series does not play a role in my company's AI initiatives. The R series is suitable for me, for approximately 100 clients, so it's basically the main product that I use. My advice to other companies considering Dell PowerEdge R-Series is that Dell is a very reliable and long-lasting company that leads the market and technology, so I recommend Dell PowerEdge R-Series.

On a scale of 1-10, I rate Dell PowerEdge R-Series a 10.

My role in using and managing Dell PowerEdge R-Series is focused on Veeam backup for local storage. The Veeam application is installed on this server, which is the primary use case where I utilize it as a backup server. 

Currently, I am using a Dell PowerEdge R-Series server solely as a backup server to manage growing data, including a large amount of metadata that we also back up and transfer to the cloud for another repository.

I appreciate the iDRAC management for Dell PowerEdge R-Series, as it is a nice management tool that I'm using frequently. 

Everyone in my organization believes Dell PowerEdge R-Series will play some role in AI initiatives in the future. Currently, we are discussing the potential of Dell PowerEdge R-Series for AI initiatives step by step. 

In my company, we have a developer department that develops programs for our products. The management and CRM systems we are developing will be supported by AI.

For storage, I find that Dell PowerEdge R-Series is not useful. Regarding improvements, due to the cloud area and cloud platform, the on-premises server, Dell PowerEdge R-Series, might become less prominent. However, it won't disappear, as the cloud platform will remain the primary concern.

I have utilized Dell PowerEdge R-Series for about five to six years now.

The services of Dell are good, and the performance of Dell PowerEdge R-Series is also good. I didn't face any problems, and the issues I did encounter were resolved by their excellent support services, even though they're based overseas.

I may plan to scale the usage of Dell PowerEdge R-Series in the future.

If I were to rate Dell support on a scale of one to ten, I would give it an eight. 

I would not rate it a ten as I sometimes struggle with communication while speaking with support representatives in English. I believe it would be beneficial if Dell opened a support branch in Israel to support Hebrew language.

Positive

I didn't face any challenges with deployment. 

I've seen a return on my investment into Dell PowerEdge R-Series as it's still working.

This server was priced more cheaply than other options such as IBM and HP, making it quite cost-effective. 

I have looked at IBM and HP and understand the pricing differences. Although price was not the primary reason I chose Dell PowerEdge R-Series over competitors, a recommendation from a colleague influenced my decision.

For anyone looking at Dell PowerEdge R-Series, I recommend ensuring to have lots of memory and high-speed SSD disks when purchasing their server. 

I rate Dell PowerEdge R-Series an eight out of ten. I didn't face any main problems with my server, and the few issues I encountered were resolved through support.

Our company uses Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers primarily for VMware, but we also have several PowerEdge for NAS storage.

I am a system administrator. I deploy new servers. More recently, I've been decommissioning old servers and getting those ready to refurbish because we have to resell or surplus them. I also help look up specs to recommend to my director what we should get for the next refresh.

From using Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, our company has realized sustainability and reliability, as we don't have to worry about whether they will go down or not. They have been very reliable, except for one server issue, which had nothing to do with Dell or the server itself, just an act of nature.

The most valuable feature of Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers is the iDRAC, because it allows me to remotely access it from my computer without having to plug in a monitor and keyboard. I can see what's wrong and manually push updates if needed. For example, we recently had a motherboard that was bad, and iDRAC informed me of the faulty component, which is helpful because it saves me from guessing what's wrong.

A nice-to-have feature for Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers would be shorter lengths because we recently got a new data center with horizontal PDUs, and we had to replace some PowerEdges due to their longer sizes, which wouldn't fit without taking out the PDUs and switching to vertical ones.

I've been using Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers for three years now, and from what I can tell, my company has been using them for a very long time. They're great.

They are very reliable.

We are a small to medium-sized organization. Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers cater to the needs of our small to medium-sized company, as we can contact our Dell rep and explain our needs, and they can recommend the perfect PowerEdge for us.

I would describe my experience with Dell's support for PowerEdge solutions as great, as we had to get a motherboard replaced, and the replacement part arrived the next business day, which was impressive. I would rate them a 10 out of 10.

Positive

They tried HPE servers for a bit, but they didn't really like them.

The only challenge we faced was when they were longer servers. We couldn't fit them in our rack without taking out the PDUs.

I know the pricing for Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers went up last year, and we weren't too happy about that, but it is what it is.

I would rate Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers a 10 out of 10.

The main use cases for us are office applications, office servers, and messaging. On Dell PowerEdge R-Series for the office services, it is mainly storage.

What distinguishes Dell PowerEdge R-Series servers for me compared to others is the robustness and the longevity. The features I find most useful and that I like the most are the fast server restarts. Few failures save time; we gain time. Dell PowerEdge R-Series improves my organization mainly as a time saver and in terms of reliability, so we know we have equipment that is reliable. We are not afraid to refresh the ranges by going with the same thing again, but we know we are on hardware that is reliable, so we go for it with our eyes closed.

I think the power consumption part could be improved if we want to develop the Green IT aspect.

I have been using Dell PowerEdge R-Series servers for eight years.

We look at the server downtime rate to measure the success of Dell PowerEdge R-Series. The server downtime rate is almost zero; we have almost no failures. We also analyze CPU consumption depending on what is running, to see if we are using a lot of RAM. I have had no problems.

Dell PowerEdge R-Series adapts well to our organization's growth. We can add servers; it is scalable.

I have not used technical support at any point, but some colleagues have.

I did not consider another solution before choosing Dell.

I would describe the server deployment experience as very easy. Once it is racked and the network connections are plugged in, it starts up by itself; almost nothing needs to be done.

We can see a return on investment in general because we keep the servers for at least five years. Between five and eight years, we have a return on investment practically every time.

Dell is a long-standing partner with whom we have good relations, and we know the hardware is reliable. For the moment, for certain workloads, they are not put in competition. For others, they are. The price and the licenses work for us.

We are just starting AI initiatives in our organization now. For the moment, Dell PowerEdge R-Series does not play a role in that because we are not at the infrastructure stage. We are more in the thinking stage about what use cases we can develop, and for now, the hardware part is not taken into account. There is the possibility of going with that on Dell PowerEdge R-Series. I would rate this product a 9.

Dell PowerEdge R-Series is used for edge services in our company. We are testing whether Dell PowerEdge is on par with HPE, because we have been using HPE for more than 20 years, and it has been serving us very well. However, we still have doubts about some Dell aspects, particularly support. We are using a few Dell PowerEdges in the field to test if it is working and if it is mature. If it is not mature, then we will need to switch back to HPE. We are running two servers in a Citrix platform together with eight HPE servers to see if the performance is on par, if it is working as expected, and what the administrative overhead for the system engineers is. It is another platform that works in another way, so there is a learning curve, but I wonder if the end user notices anything. From my standpoint, I also consider the financial aspect of it.

Not really have I appreciated any feature about Dell PowerEdge R-Series so far because we are running a hypervisor on it, making it just a server in a rack. However, iDRAC is nice, although HPE iLO is better.

In terms of the interface, HPE is cleaner. Dell is more like a website, requiring us to search everywhere to find a feature to turn on or off, and sometimes it is hard to know where it is set. Of course, that is based on experience, as we are experienced with HPE, but HPE's management interface and their website are cleaner than Dell's. Dell has too much bloatware, too many settings, and it varies with updates, but overall, it is okay, just another way of working.

I have realized benefits so far from running Dell PowerEdges just from a financial standpoint.

The Intel processor handles my workloads well. It is just Intel, and it just works.

Dell PowerEdge could be better by having a cleaner interface, especially for iDRAC, as well as improving the support website of Dell in general, making it easier to find firmware and drivers. This is feedback I am getting from my engineers, as they find it difficult to locate settings or download items. It needs to be easier and cleaner.

We have been using Dell PowerEdges for almost two or three years now.

So far, the stability and reliability of Dell PowerEdges is good, but we are only running it for almost three years now, so I cannot tell over the long term.

The scalability question depends on the outcomes of our experiment, making it not applicable at this time.

We have utilized Dell support to help us, but of course, it takes time for them to start analyzing and determining the cause of the issue. Support is fine. We used to believe it was better, but that is what we are experimenting with. We are not only looking at cost but also support.

I cannot tell you the exact rating for their support; I would have to ask my engineers, but it would be around a six or seven.

What is lacking for me to make it a ten in terms of support is having a clear support system. Reachability should be better, with native-speaking Dutch engineers available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week instead of being transferred to India, for example.

Neutral

Of course, I considered HP ProLiant before deciding on Dell PowerEdge.

We are only running HPE, specifically HPE Incorporated and HPE Enterprise, not Lenovo.

It is difficult because it is new and looks different from what we are used to. That is the problem. When something is not working as expected, finding documentation becomes an issue. Where it would take an hour to set up an HPE server, for example, it took almost two working days for the first Dell PowerEdge to get it running.

I have not deployed Dell PowerEdges myself, but for my engineers, it is difficult.

The ROI from purchasing Dell PowerEdges versus HP or any other vendors is close, although it really depends on what the account manager is doing and whether they want an extra customer or not.

The pricing was nice, otherwise it would not be Dell, so I am only looking at pricing.

It is a little bit cheaper than HP, although that depends on the sales process. Sometimes HPE wants to do more than Dell, which makes it interesting from a financial perspective. From an operational perspective, it is just equipment.

Not specifically do I think Dell PowerEdge has features that cater to the needs of my company. It is just another hardware vendor. I see it with more transparency because you can have IBM, Lenovo, or HPE, but they all include an Intel chip, and they all include chips from NVIDIA. For me, it is just equipment, and whether it is Lenovo, Dell, or HPE does not matter much. The support behind the equipment is more important, and financially it is just comparing HPE versus Dell versus Lenovo.

I do not know at this time what model or functionality of servers or rack servers are being used.

I think it is the R model, specifically R660 or something similar, and I think they were invested last year.

I do not have any other differentiators to mention about the benefits of HP versus Dell solutions, as we are only running Dell PowerEdge and ProLiant.

My overall review rating for Dell PowerEdge R-Series is eight out of ten.

My primary use cases for Dell PowerEdge R-Series in my company mostly focus on production use, for all the servers and systems inside the company environment. I prefer not to go into details, but we have Active Directory concepts, databases, SQL, and similar systems running on them.

Dell PowerEdge R-Series does not yet play a role in my company's AI initiatives.

Dell PowerEdge R-Series supports the growth and operational success of my company in an amazing way. We had several meetings with Dell PowerEdge R-Series representatives who came to our office, understood our forecast, and managed to help us build infrastructure that would support our goal.

Since then, we have definitely scaled up as we purchased several more servers.

I need to think about in what areas Dell PowerEdge R-Series could be better and what additional features I would want to see included in the next releases.

I have no suggestions about room for improvement regarding Dell PowerEdge R-Series. Everything is fine with Dell PowerEdge R-Series; we enjoy it. It's a server, and I don't have any current pain points or features that I would want to see. We simply enjoy it.

I have almost 20 years of experience working in my current field. I have been using Dell PowerEdge R-Series for almost all my professional years.

I can say that Dell PowerEdge R-Series is a reliable and stable solution for me, and if any issues arise, they know how to solve them.

We have definitely scaled up as we purchased several more servers since our initial deployment.

On a scale of one to 10, I would give their support a rating of 10. I don't remember a situation where I was furious as I've been with other vendors, so they are better than others.

Positive

I have evaluated other vendors before choosing Dell PowerEdge R-Series, but I started as a junior with Dell PowerEdge R-Series, and as a senior, I continue doing good. Dell PowerEdge R-Series has proven itself as a reliable solution, and the service is great; you don't want to take a risk with something else.

The setup cost for Dell PowerEdge R-Series was fair enough.

I have definitely realized a return on my investment in Dell PowerEdge R-Series, as even old machines are still working as robust systems. We can use them in the DR or at least in the laboratory environment as a second generation.

I am the IT Manager managing Dell PowerEdge R-Series. With VMware and Veeam, they worked perfectly and smoothly for backups. When we had accidents and situations that required restoration, it worked perfectly and the service was fine.

As I'm in a security company and most of the systems are on-prem, we're trying to migrate most of the systems to something that will collaborate between systems, and the next step we will start to implement AI. I want AI to help with basic tasks, including helping developers, procurement, inventory, and regular day-to-day operations.

The performance metrics I use to measure success with Dell PowerEdge R-Series include the service as one of the first things, the salesperson, and all the surrounding aspects. The server itself is similar to HP and other vendors, but when you have a problem and the service is better than fine, this is a win-win situation.

My advice to someone evaluating Dell PowerEdge R-Series is that cost is not always the most important factor; sometimes you need to consider other benefits when buying a product. We can speak with potential customers if Dell PowerEdge R-Series wants our recommendation. Dell can be in touch with me if they have any questions.

On a scale of one to 10, I would rate Dell PowerEdge R-Series solutions between 9 and 10.

Our use case mainly involves running our exchange server 2019 on the SimpliVity, along with other healthcare-related servers that are also on HP, including the domain controller. We are moving away from HP because of their support issues and solutions.

The most valuable function we found in Hyper-Converged is the application version we are currently using, which is HP SimpliVity version 4.1.0.266, although we are not fully satisfied with it. We have been using Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers without issues. We occasionally replace one or two servers, but the majority are still functioning well. We've relied on Dell's EqualLogic storage for over ten years, receiving many alerts but overall having a perfectly functioning setup in the back end.

Dell's support is an area that needs improvement as their product reliability is good, but the support is not as strong as HP's. I suggest that Dell should include a built-in backup solution in VxRail, similar to what we find in Sangfor, where the backup feature is integrated.

We have been working with HP Hyper-Converged for around five years.

We have never faced unplanned downtime with Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers.

After HP SimpliVity, the hyper-converged solution, we are not using any more HP servers. We are working with Nutanix and Sangfor, and previously we also worked with Dell. Initially, these servers were with Dell, but we moved them to HP SimpliVity after the hardware expired. Our reason for this shift was based on a technical and financial comparison, as we got a better price from HP.

Dell's pricing has been high for us, which led us to move to SimpliVity.

We are still working with Nutanix products, and we also moved to another vendor called Sangfor. We are using HP SimpliVity as our hyper-converged solution, but we are not satisfied with their services and support. We have 24 nodes of HP SimpliVity, and this year we decide not to renew the contract as we plan for one more solution which could be Nutanix to replace the SimpliVity.

We use Dell's EqualLogic storage technology and Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers R740, R730, R740, and R750 servers. We are also using some applications and one or two servers from HP for Cisco operations. We have been working with Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers for maybe ten years. We use Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers for our healthcare applications and for running an old version of the exchange server.

The main benefits we receive from Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers are stability and reliability. While we occasionally receive complaints about hard disk failures, overall, we find the solution satisfactory. We could not continue with Dell due to high pricing, but we have transitioned to HP and are now moving to Sangfor and Nutanix.

Flexibility-wise, both Dell and HP solutions are okay for us, as we run VMware on Dell hardware, managing around 120 to 130 virtual machines. In the past, we primarily used Dell while paying to Dell and VMware, but given the changes in VMware's pricing after Broadcom's acquisition, we are now transitioning to HCI solutions that provide similar features.

We cannot give a proper estimation of power consumption due to high cooling and availability in our data center, but our HCI solutions consume less electricity now compared to older Dell servers, which had high energy consumption. We are not familiar with AI workloads, as no one has presented this feature to us. We purchased the product from a third-party business partner.

When comparing Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers with HP SimpliVity, we see that they serve different purposes; Dell operates standalone on VMware, whereas HP is a hyper-converged solution. Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers stands out as a better option in this context. Overall, we give Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers a final rating of six out of ten.