We performed a comparison between Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers and IBM Power Systems 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 maintenance and remote monitoring are valuable."
"Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers have been stable and reliable over the last decade."
"The iDRAC is an excellent service; it allows us to install and deploy our software remotely."
"PowerEdge Rack Servers are very good for handling the evolving needs of high-performance workloads."
"Compared to the other vendors and generations, this one tends to be more user-friendly, so you spend less time trying to get where you want to go."
"What we like the most is the stability. Without shutdowns, our VMs and servers are up and running fine."
"I love the updates from the iDRAC, they are very nice. The installation is easy. Replacement, if something fails, is so easy and so good."
"The most valuable features are remote management and iDRAC."
"The SMT that they've improved has really helped open up boundaries for other applications that can use it."
"The uptime feature is great."
"We've been using it for a long time, and it's stable."
"IBM Power Systems provides very good performance and stability compared to other brands or processors."
"BM Power Systems get updated every two years and are scalable and stable."
"What we like the most is the ability to upgrade the scaling of the system itself. Whenever we need extra storage, we can do that. Whenever we need extra memory, we can do that as well. It's fast and it's available."
"We have had a good experience with the technical support team at IBM."
"The installation is easy."
"Enriching the operational efficiency of Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers could be achieved through the strategic implementation of a central management console hosted in the cloud."
"This solution helped us reduce our rack footprint. It reduced our power consumption including size and weight."
"In terms of the iDRAC software, when selecting systems, especially multiple systems to upgrade, there's really no way to confirm that specific systems are selected."
"The solution could improve by making the warranty policy better, which is a little bit complex because our local service partner Smart Technologies has long delays. Whenever we open any case for any customer, it takes more than five days. If we could handle it by ourselves, we could have the issue solved in one day. They should work on a way to fix these delays."
"The specs for the benchmarks are very good, but the firmware and software are lacking. There are some issues with the Linux kernel and the long-term support (LTS) for some of the firmware's dependencies. It is causing the kernel to dump. The support for the Linux brands isn't optimal. We would like them to optimize the kernel drivers for benchmarks."
"There might be room for improvement in terms of efficiency, particularly with PowerEdge servers."
"It would be easier if the remote connection to the server could be done through the USB port. From the server, we should be able to connect to a laptop or a management workstation through a USB port."
"We have experienced some challenges with iDRAC when upgrading firmware."
"IBM should provide a platform where users can learn about the storage and security of IBM Power Systems."
"If you take advantage of some of these real advanced features, for oversubscribing as an example, it's not supported on Linux on Power. So that stops us, in particular, from going that way."
"The scalability process should be simplified."
"One of the features that we would like, and I think they are also adapting to the latest trends in the market, is to make it more open, more flexible... With VMware, anybody can create a virtual machine without any knowledge of the server side. But with AIX it's a bit difficult."
"One of the main challenges with IBM Power Systems is the functionality of live partnership mobility."
"In the next release, I would like to see additional graphical dashboards to help the administrators access information more easily."
"I would like to see firmware available to all of the systems."
"Price and complexity related to the management of the solution are areas of concern in the solution where improvements are required."
Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers is ranked 1st in Rack Servers with 136 reviews while IBM Power Systems is ranked 4th in Rack Servers with 69 reviews. Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers is rated 8.8, while IBM Power Systems is rated 8.8. 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 IBM Power Systems writes "A solution with minimal downtime and quick recovery time in the event of a sudden or unexpected crash". Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers is most compared with HPE ProLiant DL Servers, Lenovo ThinkSystem Rack Servers, Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers, HPE Apollo and Huawei FusionServer RH Series Rack Servers, whereas IBM Power Systems is most compared with Intel Server System, Oracle SPARC Servers, HPE ProLiant DL Servers, Lenovo ThinkSystem Rack Servers and HPE Apollo. See our Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers vs. IBM Power Systems report.
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IBM Power Systems vs Dell PowerEdge Rack Server
IBM Power Systems is a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) system that contains 8 threads or over per core. This processor performs super-fast due to the RISC algorithm technology than any other Intel-based hardware (e.g., Dell, HPE, Cisco).
In Intel, there are only 2 or 4 threads per core and it performs according to CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer).
IBM Power system is a sustainable, reliable and obviously costly solution compared to any other Intel-based solution.Generally, IBM Power system is used in mission-critical systems.
Hi, simple and short if you want to learn more and more about computing then go with IBM and if you want to just deploy and move on then use Dell.
Dell has its own technologies and IBM has its own. All VM (Hana and other technologies) come after computing. If you know how computers compute technology you will do your best in this computing world and it's also good for your career.
thank me later :)
IBM Power comes with virtualization integrated (PowerVM), highly optimized (practically with no performance impact) - no need for VMWare, HyperV etc.
For database it is the recomended platform - even is Hana, Oracle (best combination with AIX) or DB2 (DB2 for me is the most autonomous database that you can have).
The downside of IBM Power could be the lack of support for Windows and the initial cost.