Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers pros and cons

The most valuable aspects include hot swapping and the elasticity as far as being able to scale.

The MX7000 gives us the most concentrated amount of compute in the smallest area possible.

The availability is excellent.

Dell PowerEdge servers are powerful. They don't break, and I love that. In my career of over 30 years now, all the Dell servers we've ever used out of the box have never broken.

The management portal is essential because it gives you a lot of flexibility. You don't have to be at the location to manage the server. You can power it on and off remotely or start an installation remotely. All you need to do is connect it to the network and you can do things from thousands of miles away.

PowerEdge helped to reduce our customer’s data processing time.

The solution delivers what it promises. You look at the specs and it delivers them.

We were running out of memory, and that was the first time we heard of a solution that supports a terabyte of core memory. That was the primary reason we got the first box. We've stayed with it since then because we have so many Dell workstations.

It is very easy and seamless to use the OpenManage console for lifecycle management or PowerEdge Rack Servers. It is one of the best solutions in the market today to manage the lifecycle of services.

The real advantage to Dell when I look at some of the other competitors is the support.

It's more from the pandemic, however, the logistics part of it could be better.

On the MX7000 platform, they should continue to release better and faster blades.

The solution could still use some more analytics.

Dell needs to focus more on SMBs, helping us get the most out of our products. For example, at events, there should be very specific SMB sessions where there are Dell technicians, engineers, and Dell executives meeting with us and finding out what we need. Dell is big on promoting the fact that they're part of our team and that they want to be our partners, and I would like to see them actually partner with us. Do it less with the big Fortune 500 companies and do a little bit more with us SMBs.

While I wouldn't call it a problem, physically mounting the servers into the rails that come with the servers can be a challenge. They could be engineered to be a little bit easier to use. It's not that significant, we can manage it, but you need at least two people to do it together because they're a bit heavy.

We do encounter power supply failures from time to time.

Until they get new technology and density, it would be nice to see four nodes in a one-year package instead of a three-year package.

Capacity and performance could always be improved.

It is not good in terms of its energy consumption for a large-scale deployment. I probably would go for something more dense, like blades or any type of small scale hardware service solutions, to lower the heat and power consumption. However, for small environments, this solution is okay and easy to maintain.

I've had some trouble where the customers are not happy with the Toshiba drives, and it's a challenge when it comes to specific requests for Dell to a non-deviate, and only use Seagate drives.