We performed a comparison between HPE Apollo, Huawei FusionServer RH Series Rack Servers, and IBM Power Systems 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 solution is well documented in a data sheet."
"It's pretty flexible. You can choose how much storage you put on the server. You can have one to three nodes, depending on whether you want more CPU or storage."
"HPE Apollo's most valuable feature is the ability to expand our storage capacity."
"Absolutely being able to mount into Omni-Path architecture, HFIs on those nodes, because we were the very first site in the world"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable thing about Huawei FusionServer is the fact that it's easy to use."
"I use the hypervisor of IBM Power Systems a lot."
"The performance and stability are great."
"The installation is easy."
"We have had a good experience with the technical support team at IBM."
"PowerVM."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The backups work great, data recovery works great."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the hardware is really good and reliable."
"HPE Apollo's after-sales support and technical support should be improved."
"We would like to see SimpliVity on top of the Apollo."
"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."
"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."
"Lustre seems to be just a little bit unstable overall."
"There is a shared battery for all cache controllers in the node. When you have to replace that element, you have to take down all three nodes and not just one."
"The technical support from HPE has always been good in my experience."
"We have tried to used standardization using Ubuntu Linux and it's been hard. They had some difficulties getting the RAID configuration up and running because there are no drivers for it. It's not supported by HPE."
"In the next release, I'd like to see more features not in the hardware but in the platform where I can manage all the servers and the hardware of the servers."
"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."
"I think the cost should be cheaper."
"I would like to see firmware available to all of the systems."
"Its price can be improved. It is too high."
"The pricing is high."
"Price and complexity related to the management of the solution are areas of concern in the solution where improvements are required."
"IBM Power Systems could improve by having a cloud feature."
