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Dell PowerEdge R-Series vs HPE Integrity comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 1, 2026

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Dell PowerEdge R-Series
Ranking in Blade Servers
2nd
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
325
Ranking in other categories
Converged Infrastructure (1st), Data Center Networking (3rd), Rack Servers (1st)
HPE Integrity
Ranking in Blade Servers
11th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.4
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Blade Servers category, the mindshare of Dell PowerEdge R-Series is 4.9%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Integrity is 4.0%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Blade Servers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Dell PowerEdge R-Series4.9%
HPE Integrity4.0%
Other91.1%
Blade Servers
 

Featured Reviews

Tom van Mil - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at Lico Innovations B.v.
Supports flexible hosting needs through seamless upgradability and strong monitoring capabilities
The most valuable features of Dell PowerEdge R-Series for me are the feature richness and the upgradability. I really love the way that it is so dynamically applicable for every situation, and they manage to have an all-in-one solution for every single situation. Dell PowerEdge has supported the growth and operational success of my company through its great compute power and price-to-performance ratio. Every time Dell is at the top of its game for us, and there is just no other brand for us that is able to reach that kind of price-to-performance ratio. Dell PowerEdge R-Series has features that specifically cater to the needs of my small company, such as iDRAC. The iDRAC system is a complete feature set for managing servers and hardware technically and monitoring-wise. It really fits in our system and our ecosystem, and monitoring-wise, it is excellent. They have all these sensors available via different protocols and end points, which I love, and the ability to manage and control everything via the iDRAC interface is just a welcome bonus. In our use case, Dell PowerEdge R-Series is very flexible. It is another computer which helps a lot because of the durability over time. They keep running, making scalability for getting more of those resources in our environment so easy.
JQ
Oracle Database Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Robust security layers have supported mission-critical banking and protected sensitive data
Where I have not really enjoyed is the flexibility of doing things. You are just in a straitjacket with what they give you. The flexibility of doing things is limited compared to other platforms. The backup and restore features on that module were a bit old. I couldn't create a snapshot and provision a server in minutes. The VM features that I can use now easily were not that easy with HPE Integrity and were not even available for us. I had a lot of interaction with HPE Integrity and wanted to move to a different platform for a different experience. I did not see any products matching the Dell PowerFlex environment in terms of server capabilities when it comes to HPE Integrity. We are now using Oracle products and Oracle Data Guard. Oracle on HPE Integrity was a bit more difficult because you have to get separate patches, separate tunables, and separate kernel settings for HPE Integrity. Everything was so proprietary on HPE Integrity, making it difficult to have one solution. The Dell Linux environment with Oracle Linux OS now will be much easier.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Using Dell PowerEdge servers has absolutely helped reduce unplanned production downtime; before we had them, we experienced unplanned downtime approximately once every two months, and after we implemented Dell PowerEdge R-Series, there has not been any downtime, resulting in a 100% reduction of unplanned downtime from hardware."
"My experience with customer service has been positive."
"I would rate Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers a ten out of ten."
"The feature of Dell PowerEdge R-Series that I appreciate the most is the flexibility, the expansions, and the resiliency—these features benefit my company because fewer hardware problems result in more uptime for the users, which helps everyone in a 24/7 operational environment."
"Our customers do not ask for any service for the Dell EMC PowerEdge Rack Servers because they are very durable."
"You are provided with excellent instructions."
"The solution's stability is good...The solution's scalability is good."
"The feature I appreciate the most about Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers is the reliability."
"When it comes to high-fault tolerance, HPE Integrity is very good, and we have had very good experience with the integrity of the servers for mission-critical functions and high-fault tolerance."
"We need to be able to offer our customers continuous service 24/7, and we are able to do all this with Integrity."
"What I like about HPE Integrity servers is how stable and easy to use they are."
"The added value of Integrity has always been the reliability of the processors and all the parts in the servers."
"Except running Oracle on Integrity servers, its ROI is well justified in customer environments."
"We use it as a database server for SAP systems, and it is performing very well."
"HPE Integrity is a mission-critical server, and we are using it for our SAP; we require zero downtime, which is why it is typically used in environments like banks or air traffic control where the downtime requirement is absolute zero."
"The Integrity series combined with the software layer presents an excellent Mission Critical landscape that brings simplicity in a complex landscape to the foreground."
 

Cons

"I would say the pain points are better power usage and consumption; that's not up to Dell, that's up to the CPU manufacturers."
"We'd want the solution to be faster, and of course, for them to bring down the price."
"We are leaning away from this particular product because Dell's VxRail solution makes us buy four nodes at a time which is not scalable. Other solutions such as Cisco offer more innovation on this front."
"There is potential for enhancement in terms of its overall upgradeability."
"The time it takes the machine to boot up, when I turn it off and on, could be quicker."
"The response time could be better."
"Its pricing could be better."
"The aftermarket price for RAM modules and CPU cores is expensive. If I want to switch out a CPU or processor inside of my Dell PowerEdge to gain more cores, which increases my performance for VMware, the aftermarket price is so expensive that we typically take that box, retire an older Dell PowerEdge, and then buy a brand new one."
"HPE Integrity has always been one step behind in areas like virtualization technologies, cloud enablement, the speed of backups, and replication."
"Pricing is very high. It should be less."
"I would like to see a GUI interface to manage resources and deploy new servers."
"Don't do it. Go x86."
"The manageability must be improved."
"HPE Integrity is a pain. HPE hasn't put much work into developing the solution in the past few years because it will be discontinued soon."
"Since Intel featured this product as a mainframe class, it should perform closer to a mainframe."
"It is an old technology, so there is not much growth that we can do on it now."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing for Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers is on par with everything else at the moment."
"The product is cheaper than HP servers, but the price could always be better."
"This is an expensive solution."
"I don't know about the product's licensing part. Price-wise, it is an okay product. I believe that the cheaper the better, but I think that the product's price is okay."
"One of the clients has been offered a price of $18,000 instead of the regular price of around $25,000."
"They are affordable. Even during our recent procurement, the cost of Dell servers was lower than that of HPE."
"PowerEdge pricing is equivalent to that of all the others in the market."
"The product's pricing is not good."
"Price-wise, the solution is very expensive."
"HPE Integrity's pricing could be better."
"The pricing is the best."
"The price is not very expensive."
"There is no license required to use HPE Integrity."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Construction Company
7%
Construction Company
18%
Outsourcing Company
16%
Marketing Services Firm
10%
Healthcare Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business113
Midsize Enterprise66
Large Enterprise143
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise12
 

Questions from the Community

When shopping for a rack server, would you go with Dell EMC Poweredge or Lenovo Thinksystem?
Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether the Dell EMC Poweredge or Lenovo Thinksystem rack servers were the better fit for us. We ultimately decided to go with Dell EMC Poweredge....
What needs improvement with Dell EMC PowerEdge Rack Servers?
The cost is one area Dell PowerEdge R-Series can be improved. If Dell PowerEdge R-Series could look at the price, that would be best. Whether it is good depends on if the company's budget is good.
What is your primary use case for Dell EMC PowerEdge Rack Servers?
I use Dell PowerEdge R-Series for installation, and all virtual VMware infrastructure is running on Dell PowerEdge servers. I am mostly using all infrastructure servers with Dell PowerEdge. I am ho...
What needs improvement with HPE Integrity?
Where I have not really enjoyed is the flexibility of doing things. You are just in a straitjacket with what they give you. The flexibility of doing things is limited compared to other platforms. T...
What is your primary use case for HPE Integrity?
We are still working with HP products, specifically HPE Integrity servers. We are about to migrate this year to Dell. For Unix, because we are using Unix now, we're going to move to Linux on that p...
What advice do you have for others considering HPE Integrity?
Data protection and application support features are important considerations. My total experience has been seven out of ten. Regarding disaster recovery, we just have the servers that we configure...
 

Also Known As

Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers
HP Integrity Superdome , HP Integrity, SGI Altix
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

NxtGen Datacenter, Medien-Service Untermain (MSU), Exasol, IndigoVision, Dayco
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