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I have been using Dell PowerEdge C- Series in my company for more than 10 years. One hundred people are using Nexus 9000 in my company. I consider my local area network to be medium-sized for just 100 people, and not high when considering the overlay technology in Nexus. The benefits of my local area network features come from using Dell PowerEdge C- Series. I have a file server and print server for the normal use of my work facilities.

AI technology must be included in the future. The main improvement I think is the price when considering room for improvement regarding first-level support or response time.

All features for the local area network, including domain controller, DHCP, DNS, and even VLANs, have been the most valuable features I have found.

Dell PowerEdge C- Series is very flexible when discussing the flexibility of its storage configurations in meeting my data volumes.

AI technology must be included in the future.

The main improvement I think is the price when considering room for improvement regarding first-level support or response time.

I am uncertain about the return on investment and whether I have seen a return on investment with Dell PowerEdge C- Series.

I have been using Dell PowerEdge C- Series for more than 10 years.

I think AI technology must be included in the future. Dell PowerEdge C- Series is suitable for me when rating stability.

I do not have high-density interfaces.

I would rate the technical support at eight out of ten. I think the technical support team is responding well regarding response time and overall competence, but my experience is limited to one or two interactions.

Positive

I worked with HP servers before Dell PowerEdge C- Series. HP servers are also very suitable.

I did not take part in the deployment of Dell PowerEdge C- Series.

I deployed Dell PowerEdge C- Series by myself.

I do not know whether I have seen a return on investment with Dell PowerEdge C- Series.

I just use normal switches for the domain controller in the network, as I have not used the advanced thermal management solutions of Dell PowerEdge C- Series.

HP servers are also very suitable.

I just have Cisco switches, such as Cisco XDR and Secure Access, and Cisco Duo. I have one Cisco router and also have Cisco switches and routers. I do not work with Cisco Meraki products. I cannot remember the version of my Cisco switches, but the current switches are very suitable for me, and I am not familiar with the Cisco Nexus 9000 series.

I have been working with the Cisco Nexus 9000 series for three years. I just use a normal policy, not the advanced policy-driven approach in Nexus. I do not utilize the high-density interfaces for Ethernet. The integration with Cisco DNA has not facilitated agile network management for me.

I did not use any metrics when evaluating the effectiveness of Nexus 9000. The product has been stable and easy to use. The pricing is very high because it is a very high technology device. I cannot rate Cisco Nexus 9000 overall because I did not use it. I have just normal switches as a matter of fact. I did not try the Cisco Cloud Services Router at all.

I have a rack-mounted server, which is Dell PowerEdge. I am familiar with Dell PowerEdge C- Series. I do not have advanced security features, just normal features for my local area network. I have not had any idea about whether the compute capability has benefited my organization's data processing tasks. My experience with Dell PowerEdge C- Series is very good and positive. I do not have any idea regarding the room for improvement in Dell PowerEdge C- Series.

I consider the price of Dell PowerEdge C- Series to be medium and just suitable for me. I am still using HP in addition to Dell. I think rack-mounted servers are better in my opinion when comparing HP servers and Dell PowerEdge C- Series. HP does not have any advantages over Dell PowerEdge C- Series. I am not using them for different purposes. The deployment was easy, and I did not have any difficulties. Dell PowerEdge C- Series is on-premises. I think AI technology must be included in the future as an additional feature I would like to see in Dell PowerEdge C- Series to make it even better.

I would rate both HP and Dell technical support at seven out of ten. The charge for support is very high regarding the price for support. I would rate this review overall at eight out of ten.

We are using Dell PowerEdge C- Series for our database processing as well as data warehouse systems. Oracle database is running on this system, and our Tableau reporting analytical systems are also running on these systems.

The processing power and computing power are very good. Even with the Xeon Gold processor, it is performing very well without any issues. After migrating to these servers, we reduced the number of cores or CPUs from our infrastructure level. However, it is still not reaching the threshold limit of CPU usage.

The bandwidth handling capability as well as computing capabilities are excellent. Day by day, Dell is enhancing and releasing new models and new Dell PowerEdge C- Series systems with new computing capability CPUs from Intel. These types of compatibilities are getting evaluated, and I am keeping my eye on that aspect so that when new technologies and new areas emerge, we can buy new hardware to migrate and host our other applications.

Dell PowerEdge C- Series advanced security features are noteworthy. My applications are running without any issues, without any hacking or data leakage. Our security team and gateway firewall teams are always concerned about security, and I have peace of mind. Of course, Dell PowerEdge C- Series security features are helping us improve that.

The hardware design is getting more and more powerful day by day. Whenever Dell releases new things, it is getting compatible with our different types of Gold, Platinum, Intel Xeon, and AMD type of CPUs. Dell PowerEdge C- Series handles L2 and L3 cache capabilities, caching capabilities, memory computing capabilities, and the NVMe RAM type also improves performance. The OS level hardware also has this type of NVMe type of high-speed storage implemented on that hardware. The hardware is getting improved day by day.

Dell PowerEdge C- Series storage is used in our data center, but I am not concerned about that because it is not used in my division. Although I am part of that organization, in my division, I am not using that.

I have not utilized the advanced thermal management solutions of Dell PowerEdge C- Series.

I am not using that type of particular tool, but we are using a specific monitoring tool where the CPU and memory with our user load are monitored. In that way, I am monitoring the systems. Maybe that tool is not sufficient, or there may be another advanced tool available from Dell PowerEdge C- Series for efficiency measurement. Currently, we are using a few HP tools to monitor continuously the systems, system IOPS, systems network bandwidth, CPU, memory, and processing capabilities.

We have been using Dell PowerEdge C- Series for five years now.

We are using the BL series, specifically the ProLiant BL460 as well as Dell PowerEdge C- Series R760 with Gold Xeon processor.

Technical support is mission-critical support type, and we are getting very prompt support. Although we had HP support from other vendors as well, the support here is not less, but better support is also being received from Dell. If any issues we face, immediate solutions are being provided. The prompt support with mission critical response and on-site visits are coming on priority and within a little span of time, the issues are getting resolved.

Positive

We have been working with XtremIO, which already was outdated. Nowadays, we have a write-off of that. In place of that, we have brought one solution that is again more powerful, which is PowerMax 2500.

I cannot say exactly how much pricing I am paying. It is based on what type of demand we have. However, of course, that is also very less. If we go for any other hardware from Oracle or any other vendor, compared to that, it is very cheaper.

Other technologies are there. I am from one particular division in ITC. Across all divisions in our data center, our databases, and throughout our organization, we are using Dell servers for database and Oracle database. With Dell Xeon processor, specifically Xeon Gold processor, we are using Dell hardware. That is also working fine for us and very, very nice. Performance-wise, its computing power is very nice.

We are using a data center where across all divisions, we are using many different series. Not only single series are we using, but we are using many. For our divisions, we are using very specific series where computing power is very high. We started using Dell hardware a very long time ago. We have been using Dell PowerEdge C- Series for more than four to five years now, and it is really giving good performance.

I did not evaluate Dell PowerEdge C- Series storage, but PowerMax storage, which has the high IOPS capabilities, is what we are using. The snapshot type of backup within a fraction of a second is being taken. This is done without overloading our application sides and areas. In old systems, taking the backup took time, but here, the snapshot takes a fraction of seconds. Due to this backup capability, additional load is not there in our PowerMax storage.

The hardware design is getting more and more powerful day by day. Whenever new things are being released, it is getting compatible with our different types of Gold, Platinum, Intel Xeon, and AMD type of CPUs. Dell PowerEdge C- Series handles L2 and L3 cache capability, caching capabilities, memory computing capabilities, and the NVMe RAM type also improves performance. The OS level hardware also has this type of NVMe type of high-speed storage implemented on that hardware. The hardware is getting improved day by day.

Whenever we need Windows environment, we can install Windows on that same hardware platform as well as Linux. SUSE Linux, Red Hat Linux, or whatever flavor we want is supported. If we have one application which we want to install on Red Hat Linux, then we can use the same Dell PowerEdge C- Series to install the OS Linux. If we need some Windows platform, then we can also install Windows 2019 or whatever version may be needed, such as 2023. The flexibilities and adaptability are there. Even virtualization can be done. Based on our requirement, we can create the virtual environment and virtual machines. That capability also is available. Dell PowerEdge C- Series is a contemporary solution and the best solution. Overall, I would rate this product a nine out of ten.