We performed a comparison between Dell PowerEdge FX 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."The remote management is great."
"The power efficiency is very good and nice."
"It has extremely high performance, and it is easy to manage."
"It is a scalable solution. My company hasn't faced any difficulties related to the product's performance and scalability since Dell ensures to provide a high-performance service."
"The product seamlessly integrates with the storage portfolio."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it has very robust servers and a very heavy load. We've been working on servers now for 10 years and those servers are still up and running. Those servers are still very powerful until today."
"The best feature is PowerEdge's ability to stack up eight blade servers in one 2U chassis."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple and easy."
"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."
"HPE Apollo's support is the most valuable feature."
"The technical support from HPE has always been good in my experience."
"The solution is well documented in a data sheet."
"When we moved to the Apollo and all flash drives, we gained a lot of performance."
"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."
"Absolutely being able to mount into Omni-Path architecture, HFIs on those nodes, because we were the very first site in the world"
"Apollo Systems provide stuff that standard services do not. More HTDs, more compute power, at very reasonable pricing."
"There are times when a part might break down and we need to have Dell replace it."
"I don't have any technical issues, but I would like to see the commercial side improve as compared to all other OEMs."
"I rate Dell support six out of 10. It varies. Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's bad. The response time could be better."
"There are certain shortcomings with Dell PowerEdge FX's integration capabilities with different operating systems, where improvements are needed."
"In terms of the cost, it is a little bit high, meaning, there is some difference in the cost compared to the equivalent product with HP servers."
"They could improve from a manufacturing perspective."
"It should have more simplified management. It is a common problem where vendors think that they have simplified a solution, but the users don't look at it in the same way. A vendor thinks that there are only ten steps for a task, but we consider them as many steps. It should also have more support for NVMe. For high performance and speed, there should also be more network cards for the fiber channel and ethernet."
"When it comes to Dell PowerEdge FX, the area of concern revolves around the delivery time where improvements are required."
"The predictive analysis feature could be improved."
"We could, perhaps, use more GPUs in the future, go from eight to 16 GPUs per instance. That could run head-to-head against the DGX-1, the DGX-2 that NVIDIA has developed in their own chassis. That would be interesting to see."
"I would want to see the flexibility of being able to run various network protocols including InfiniBand, Fibre Channel, as well as iSCSI, with iSCSI going up to 100 gigabytes per second -that would be outstanding."
"HPE Apollo's after-sales support and technical support should be improved."
"Lustre seems to be just a little bit unstable overall."
"The technical support from HPE has always been good in my experience."
"What's coming out in Gen 10 is very strong in terms of additional security."
"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 FX is ranked 8th in Rack Servers with 12 reviews while HPE Apollo is ranked 6th in Rack Servers with 22 reviews. Dell PowerEdge FX is rated 8.4, while HPE Apollo is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell PowerEdge FX writes "A highly stable product that seamlessly integrates with the storage portfolio and provides excellent technical support". 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 FX is most compared with Lenovo ThinkSystem Rack Servers, Lenovo Edge Servers, Oracle SPARC Servers, HPE Moonshot and Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, whereas HPE Apollo is most compared with HPE ProLiant DL Servers, Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge XE Servers and IBM Power Systems. See our Dell PowerEdge FX vs. HPE Apollo report.
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