We performed a comparison between Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers and HPE Apollo based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Rack Servers solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's helped us reduce unplanned downtime."
"The use of OpenManage Console reduces the time it takes to manage PowerEdge Rack Servers in terms of updates and maintenance."
"The ease of installation is valuable. The physical side of installation is quite intuitive and has got better by leaps and bounds. The hardware has always been fantastic, and it has always been reliable."
"What we like the most is the stability. Without shutdowns, our VMs and servers are up and running fine."
"The most valuable feature is reliability. We rarely have any issues and because of this, Dell is our go-to for servers."
"The server itself is valuable. It does what we ask it to do."
"It works perfectly, especially in terms of availability and reliability, without any type of issue, which is why we are very happy with it."
"Their management tools are the most valuable. Our customers like the flexibility of being able to scale up and out. It is very easy for them to scale and add additional nodes and servers to their storage solutions, such as the ATI solution. It has very good quality and a great deployment model. Its warranty is also very good, and it is very stable. Their fixes have been quick if they have those."
"Absolutely being able to mount into Omni-Path architecture, HFIs on those nodes, because we were the very first site in the world"
"The cost benefit of this solution is most valuable. It is quite effective for the work for which we are using it. We are mainly running video servers on these, and we are quite happy with the resilience, density storage, and streaming capacity of the system."
"It's very reliable. I haven't had a single failure at all in the year and a half; not the slightest problem with it."
"we can use the same platform for several use cases: Hadoop, Ceph, and we are considering the server for another use case right now. It's a single solution, we only have to integrate it once and we can use it for several technologies."
"HPE Apollo's pricing is low, and implementation is very easy compared to other products."
"The solution is well documented in a data sheet."
"The technical support from HPE has always been good in my experience."
"We usually use three blades for two-rack units, and with enough storage, it's really a small system with a powerful CPU, powerful hard drives, powerful disks."
"Unfortunately, PowerEdge Rack Servers do not support NVMe storage."
"The servers get slower at the end of their life cycle. The technology needs to evolve."
"The security of this solution could be improved. We have very specific needs as an engineering company and require multiple layers of security. This is not offered when implementing the Dell hardware."
"The time it takes the machine to boot up, when I turn it off and on, could be quicker."
"There is room for improvement in technical support."
"From the licensing model perspective, it might be useful for enterprises to get an overall enterprise license, rather than licensing each server. That is one option because we tend to buy the service with the licenses, but some of our older equipment does not have them."
"Their support can be better. The speed of their support is not always great because the access to the data centers is sometimes complicated, so there is back and forth."
"I would like for PowerEdge Rack Servers could be a bit more compact."
"The solution's deployment, security, and scalability need improvement."
"The technical support from HPE has always been good in my experience."
"We would like to see SimpliVity on top of the Apollo."
"There is a shared battery for all cache controllers in the node. When you have to replace that element, you have to take down all three nodes and not just one."
"Lustre seems to be just a little bit unstable overall."
"What's coming out in Gen 10 is very strong in terms of additional security."
"The support from HPE Apollo could be better, they are making knowledgeable."
"One drawback which I had: When I needed to expand storage on the Apollo, I had significant problems getting disks for it. It was a very long wait-time. So, if I were to give any advice in regards to improving this product, I would say make more of the 8TB disks available quicker."
Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers is ranked 1st in Rack Servers with 138 reviews while HPE Apollo is ranked 6th in Rack Servers with 22 reviews. Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers is rated 8.8, while HPE Apollo is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers writes "We get centralization, remote management, and good customer service with these servers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Apollo writes "An affordable and easy-to-implement solution, but its after-sales support and technical support should be improved". Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers is most compared with Lenovo ThinkSystem Rack Servers, HPE ProLiant DL Servers, Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers, IBM Power Systems and Huawei FusionServer RH Series Rack Servers, whereas HPE Apollo is most compared with HPE ProLiant DL Servers, HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge FX, Dell PowerEdge XE Servers and HPE Moonshot. See our Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers vs. HPE Apollo report.
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