We performed a comparison between Dell XR2 Rugged Server and HPE ProLiant DL Servers based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo and others in Rack Servers."The scalability of the Dell XR2 Rugged Server is good and easy to do."
"The storage and the disc performance in terms of IOPS is great."
"The initial setup for HPE ProLiant DL Servers is easy."
"The solution's initial setup is straightforward."
"Support is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"We use HPE Datacenter support, and it is good support. It is automatic support. When I have a problem, the question is written automatically."
"The most valuable feature is stability."
"The hardware is reliable."
"It's easy to upgrade, and it is very easy to take care of the firmware upgrades."
"It is very stable. This is the feedback that I'm getting from my customers for the hardware. It is also 100% scalable. HPE is also very specialized when it comes up to the server industry. It is not only about the rack servers; it is also about the blade servers. They were the first ones to bring these to the market more than ten years ago."
"It lacks a modular option to expand to a 16-bay system."
"Dell XR2 Rugged Server could improve if there was more customization allowed."
"They should continue to maintain the stability that is there."
"Most of the servers we use are okay. However, sometimes, you need to change the parts. We'd like the solution to be more robust."
"Not all of the hardware is completely up-to-date."
"I want to improve hyper-converged sites."
"We found that the extensions could be improved and the price could be a little lower."
"It would be great if HP could use a ProLiant Server to run HP-UX, the Unix build from HPE. Right now, HP-UX cannot run on the ProLiant architecture."
"The speed of the solution could be increased."
"The initial configuration process could be simpler."
Dell XR2 Rugged Server is ranked 12th in Rack Servers with 2 reviews while HPE ProLiant DL Servers is ranked 2nd in Rack Servers with 156 reviews. Dell XR2 Rugged Server is rated 9.0, while HPE ProLiant DL Servers is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell XR2 Rugged Server writes "Simple to scale, high availability, and top level service and support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE ProLiant DL Servers writes "Good availability and management console with good reliability". Dell XR2 Rugged Server is most compared with Dell PowerEdge XE Servers, Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers and Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, whereas HPE ProLiant DL Servers is most compared with Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, Lenovo ThinkSystem Rack Servers, HPE Apollo, Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers and Intel Server System.
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