Sr. Executive Engineer at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 5
Jun 22, 2026
There are many areas to improve in Dell PowerEdge XR-Series. Eliminating the single point of failure on the network, such as a traditional setup with cloud or central data center outages that impact production, is important. However, the local workload, vision control, and analytics keep running even if WAN and cloud fail. Improvement is needed to ensure production continuity even during network outages. Additionally, there needs to be a reduction in dependency on remote systems for real-time operations.
For improvements on Dell PowerEdge XR-Series, I suggest enhancements in the support features, such as implementing a feature where the system can call home to Dell support to open a call automatically. Ideally, as a customer, I would just receive a message stating that a call has been opened, and if it's a failed hard disk, it should already be ordered automatically without much intervention for the customer. Many customers rarely check their systems in the data center, so I would love to see major improvements in health monitoring features that allow the system to automatically send alerts to Dell, open calls, and send parts automatically or implement self-healing features whereby a system can detect certain errors and try to correct itself unless it involves something permanent that it cannot correct. These are the features I expect in the new versions of Dell PowerEdge XR-Series to make the management and support of the system easier.
RAID is very important to protect the data by creating a redundant copy or protection for your storage. When writing data, you need to ensure that if one disk fails, you can restore your data. This is very important. Within this kind of chassis inside the server, we are using SSDs, NVMEs, and hard drives. The PERCs that support different types of drives are again very important. Normally NVMe is meant to run without a PERC and should be run directly on the bus, which gives something like a software RAID. When creating the RAID, it depends on how critical the data is. For example, it can be single drive failure protection, double drive failure protection, or full redundancy through mirroring of the data. If you have a most critical environment where you need to ensure data is up and running even in case of a disk failure, then full mirroring of the data is the approach. However, this will impact the utilization of your capacity. If I have, for example, 10 TB of raw data, full mirroring will result in 5 TB usable for customers to write data because the other five will be only for protection. For less critical data, single drive failure protection like RAID 5 can provide 75% usable space compared to mirroring, which means 7.5 TB usable space compared to 5 TB.
I suggest virtualizing the CPU between multiple operating systems on the same server. Many vendors, like Nutanix, are already doing this. If you have this feature, you can partition the server itself, allowing multiple operating systems to run at the same time, and manage partitions on CPU and memory levels. We need to concentrate more on virtualization and know how to deploy this for virtualized applications more effectively. If more features could be provided for this, that would be great.
I've not seen any negative side. The only thing I can see is the board, maybe the power input that enters the board; because there was one that I was using before that the board had an issue. It might be that the power input from the source that damaged the board. There can be a protection regarding that, which I think would be pretty good so that the board will not be damaged. I suggest a protection mechanism that can protect the power issue from damaging the board.
In Dell PowerEdge XR-Series, I do not have any problems but am thinking about an area of improvement. Customization could be improved; more customization options are needed. I would like more customization on reports and analytics.
Sr. Software Engineer at Accton Technology Corporation
Real User
Top 10
Jan 14, 2026
Regarding the weakness of Dell PowerEdge XR-Series, I think the main drawback is that it is more expensive than other servers. The price of Dell PowerEdge XR-Series is expensive, and there are much cheaper products available than Dell PowerEdge XR-Series.
Data Center Engineer at a tech consulting company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
Nov 27, 2025
There is always room for improvement. Dell PowerEdge XR-Series is acceptable and will work. Service is a specific aspect that could be improved, but it is nothing bad. The service is better than bad. It is fine and not bad.
Senior Virtualization Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 5
Nov 12, 2025
I think Dell PowerEdge R-Series can be improved in appearance. I would say that the improvement opportunity is probably on the monitoring side, the overall monitoring side. I would love to see closer integration with different vendors. As a company, we are still using a multi-vendor approach and cannot go all-in with one single vendor. What we struggle with is that we cannot afford to have three different monitoring systems, management systems, or lifecycle management systems for different environments. I would love to see in the future how that integrates with other vendors as well. Perhaps not as a primary tool, but at least some features and functions from other vendors.
One of our issues is that we currently have an eight-bay system. I'd like to migrate to a 16-bay system, but there isn't a modular option available. I'd also like to see upgrade options on the storage cards, which would be helpful. In terms of additional features, I think options for improving cryptographic performance would be great. It may not be a global end-user requirement, but that's something that we would expect to see.
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There are many areas to improve in Dell PowerEdge XR-Series. Eliminating the single point of failure on the network, such as a traditional setup with cloud or central data center outages that impact production, is important. However, the local workload, vision control, and analytics keep running even if WAN and cloud fail. Improvement is needed to ensure production continuity even during network outages. Additionally, there needs to be a reduction in dependency on remote systems for real-time operations.
For improvements on Dell PowerEdge XR-Series, I suggest enhancements in the support features, such as implementing a feature where the system can call home to Dell support to open a call automatically. Ideally, as a customer, I would just receive a message stating that a call has been opened, and if it's a failed hard disk, it should already be ordered automatically without much intervention for the customer. Many customers rarely check their systems in the data center, so I would love to see major improvements in health monitoring features that allow the system to automatically send alerts to Dell, open calls, and send parts automatically or implement self-healing features whereby a system can detect certain errors and try to correct itself unless it involves something permanent that it cannot correct. These are the features I expect in the new versions of Dell PowerEdge XR-Series to make the management and support of the system easier.
RAID is very important to protect the data by creating a redundant copy or protection for your storage. When writing data, you need to ensure that if one disk fails, you can restore your data. This is very important. Within this kind of chassis inside the server, we are using SSDs, NVMEs, and hard drives. The PERCs that support different types of drives are again very important. Normally NVMe is meant to run without a PERC and should be run directly on the bus, which gives something like a software RAID. When creating the RAID, it depends on how critical the data is. For example, it can be single drive failure protection, double drive failure protection, or full redundancy through mirroring of the data. If you have a most critical environment where you need to ensure data is up and running even in case of a disk failure, then full mirroring of the data is the approach. However, this will impact the utilization of your capacity. If I have, for example, 10 TB of raw data, full mirroring will result in 5 TB usable for customers to write data because the other five will be only for protection. For less critical data, single drive failure protection like RAID 5 can provide 75% usable space compared to mirroring, which means 7.5 TB usable space compared to 5 TB.
I suggest virtualizing the CPU between multiple operating systems on the same server. Many vendors, like Nutanix, are already doing this. If you have this feature, you can partition the server itself, allowing multiple operating systems to run at the same time, and manage partitions on CPU and memory levels. We need to concentrate more on virtualization and know how to deploy this for virtualized applications more effectively. If more features could be provided for this, that would be great.
I've not seen any negative side. The only thing I can see is the board, maybe the power input that enters the board; because there was one that I was using before that the board had an issue. It might be that the power input from the source that damaged the board. There can be a protection regarding that, which I think would be pretty good so that the board will not be damaged. I suggest a protection mechanism that can protect the power issue from damaging the board.
In Dell PowerEdge XR-Series, I do not have any problems but am thinking about an area of improvement. Customization could be improved; more customization options are needed. I would like more customization on reports and analytics.
Regarding the weakness of Dell PowerEdge XR-Series, I think the main drawback is that it is more expensive than other servers. The price of Dell PowerEdge XR-Series is expensive, and there are much cheaper products available than Dell PowerEdge XR-Series.
There is always room for improvement. Dell PowerEdge XR-Series is acceptable and will work. Service is a specific aspect that could be improved, but it is nothing bad. The service is better than bad. It is fine and not bad.
I think Dell PowerEdge R-Series can be improved in appearance. I would say that the improvement opportunity is probably on the monitoring side, the overall monitoring side. I would love to see closer integration with different vendors. As a company, we are still using a multi-vendor approach and cannot go all-in with one single vendor. What we struggle with is that we cannot afford to have three different monitoring systems, management systems, or lifecycle management systems for different environments. I would love to see in the future how that integrates with other vendors as well. Perhaps not as a primary tool, but at least some features and functions from other vendors.
Dell XR2 Rugged Server could improve if there was more customization allowed.
One of our issues is that we currently have an eight-bay system. I'd like to migrate to a 16-bay system, but there isn't a modular option available. I'd also like to see upgrade options on the storage cards, which would be helpful. In terms of additional features, I think options for improving cryptographic performance would be great. It may not be a global end-user requirement, but that's something that we would expect to see.