We performed a comparison between HPE ProLiant DL 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."It is a stable solution."
"The GPU units, processor speed, and capabilities are most valuable. Desktop video conferencing is also valuable. It supports desktop video conferencing much better for graphics."
"The setup was easy and not complicated."
"When we need to, we can get through to technical support and get the right person."
"There is a lot of extra storage. I am only using half of what I need."
"This solution is very scalable. When we bought the DL580, we bought it with full capacity. It is great for our business."
"We have had no issues with the stability of the product."
"I am impressed with the tool’s stability."
"It scales a lot, you can just keep on adding frames, you can add on CPUs, you get capacity on demand, you can tune the machine very easily to handle different workloads."
"IBM Power Systems' best features are its reliability, resilience, and performance per rack unit."
"We have had a good experience with the technical support team at IBM."
"Power VM gives us the flexibility to increase or decrease machine resources when required."
"On the security side, we get regular security patch updates and system hardening. There are free tools available to harden the system."
"The availability of a solution depends on the requirement of the customer. The most valuable feature is the virtualization. You can have this one system or you can use it for many. They were using almost 120 servers within that specific service."
"We value the stability and technology capability of this solution the most. It is very stable, and the processor technology of IBM is very good. When you have a CIO and you are dealing with C-level every day, you can, without any doubt, support the core banking or critical applications with this solution."
"The best features of the solution are its robustness and service level."
"The installation could be simplified."
"Configurations could be simplified."
"It is too expensive. Its price should be improved. The system admin interface should have better visibility while troubleshooting a problem, even when the problem is coming from the application."
"It's scalable but we are switching to workstation for some software because the CPU speed isn't fast enough anymore."
"The price in general, including the licensing fee, could be better."
"We found that the extensions could be improved and the price could be a little lower."
"I would like the solution to improve its storage and performance. Also, I would like to replicate data between on-premises and cloud in future versions."
"The pricing of the solution is high compared to other products."
"The price is a bit high and could be improved."
"Its management can be made easier because it is not easy to manage. They should also find a new way for migrating from an old Power Systems to a new one. The migration process is currently very complicated. It should be made easier to scale. Currently, its scalability depends on the initial sizing, whereas in Nutanix HCI, you can add whatever you need and whenever you need it."
"Its pricing could be better."
"In the next release, I would like to see additional graphical dashboards to help the administrators access information more easily."
"Its price can be improved. It is too high."
"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."
"Better manage heterogeneous footprints of all the different operating systems that are out there across one common interface."
"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."
HPE ProLiant DL Servers is ranked 2nd in Rack Servers with 156 reviews while IBM Power Systems is ranked 4th in Rack Servers with 69 reviews. HPE ProLiant DL Servers is rated 8.6, while IBM Power Systems is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HPE ProLiant DL Servers writes "Good availability and management console with good reliability". 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". 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 Huawei FusionServer RH Series Rack Servers, whereas IBM Power Systems is most compared with Intel Server System, Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, Oracle SPARC Servers, Lenovo ThinkSystem Rack Servers and HPE Apollo. See our HPE ProLiant DL Servers vs. IBM Power Systems report.
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