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."The defining characteristic of the Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers lies in their ability to function as the pivotal nexus of the server infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is reliability. We rarely have any issues and because of this, Dell is our go-to for servers."
"The centralized management console is something that is very valuable to us because we use a fairly high number of servers."
"The newer servers are more energy-efficient compared to older ones."
"The convenience, because we can swap very easily swap hard drives when one goes down."
"These web servers were easily manageable from as early as 2003. We have a very large building, and it was possible to manage them remotely in a simple way from as early as 2003."
"It is quite flexible when you use it."
"I've found the reliability, support, the capability to grow, and the ability to add other Dell solutions to be very valuable features."
"The solution is well documented in a data sheet."
"HPE Apollo's pricing is low, and implementation is very easy compared to other products."
"Apollo Systems provide stuff that standard services do not. More HTDs, more compute power, at very reasonable pricing."
"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."
"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're going to buy another Apollo 6500. We may configure it with half the number of GPUs because that may be all we need. In a sense, we can see the Apollo 6500 being so powerful that we only need half the GPU capability that we have now."
"With HPE Apollo, we can propose configurations with many hard drives, making it suitable for large storage needs."
"HPE Apollo's support is the most valuable feature."
"They could improve the time between new versions of the product."
"We have experienced some challenges with iDRAC when upgrading firmware."
"Perhaps they could make it more power efficient. They're pretty good, but there's always room for improvement. Also, they could try to reduce heat generation."
"I don't know much about the new Intel CPUs, but they need to put more than two CPUs in the servers. It may be an Intel limitation, but I'm not sure."
"The T150 is a little bit bulky for what it is. I think if they created a T150 version with small form-factor drives, that would be an ideal solution. Currently, it is a tower box and it has quite a big footprint..."
"The analytics reports could be more useful."
"The product must provide more options to add GPUs to the machines."
"The versions that I work with, they used to max out on memory, on RAM, quickly, so I'd want to think in the newer versions, they actually allocate more processing power and more RAM to them."
"The support from HPE Apollo could be better, they are making knowledgeable."
"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."
"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."
"The solution's deployment, security, and scalability need improvement."
"If there could be some training for our team, we would be better equipped to promote and support HPE Apollo."
"We would like to see SimpliVity on top of the Apollo."
Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers is ranked 1st in Rack Servers with 133 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 "Storage solution used to host databases and support a company with more than 10,000 users". 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 HPE ProLiant DL Servers, Lenovo ThinkSystem Rack 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 IBM Power Systems. See our Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers vs. HPE Apollo report.
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