We performed a comparison between HPE Apollo and PowerEdge C based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Density Optimized Servers solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"HPE Apollo's pricing is low, and implementation is very easy compared to other products."
"When we moved to the Apollo and all flash drives, we gained a lot of performance."
"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."
"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."
"The technical support from HPE has always been good in my experience."
"It's going to meet our needs moving forward, it is scalable."
"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."
"PowerEdge servers have high CPU processing power, and the support is also good."
"The hybrid solution is much more stable than other products."
"Every new version is better than the previous one."
"The performance is good."
"The scalability of the product is good since it offers high performance and capacity."
"I like the feature that allows for a backup and that is suitable for me."
"PowerEdge C is the best server I have worked with. I like that it's user-friendly. PowerEdge C performs very well."
"The initial setup is not complex. It's a user-friendly tool."
"The support from HPE Apollo could be better, they are making knowledgeable."
"If there could be some training for our team, we would be better equipped to promote and support HPE Apollo."
"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."
"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."
"The technical support from HPE has always been good in my experience."
"One drawback which I had: When I needed to expand storage on the Apollo, I had significant problems getting disks for it. It was a very long wait-time. So, if I were to give any advice in regards to improving this product, I would say make more of the 8TB disks available quicker."
"We would like to see improved cooling because that is quite an issue. If you put that much compute power into a single rack, cooling really becomes an issue. And there is room for improvement there."
"Lustre seems to be just a little bit unstable overall."
"HP is a little bit lower in terms of price."
"The VxRail should be opened to allow other virtualization platforms to be used."
"The reliability needs improvement."
"There is some trouble with the stability part of the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"It should be improved in terms of future expansion. We should be able to have additional free slots for future extensions in terms of memory."
"Its customer service could be better."
"There has been an increase in quality issues."
"It would be easier if data center management and disaster recovery were combined."
HPE Apollo is ranked 2nd in Density Optimized Servers with 22 reviews while PowerEdge C is ranked 1st in Density Optimized Servers with 23 reviews. HPE Apollo is rated 8.4, while PowerEdge C is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HPE Apollo writes "An affordable and easy-to-implement solution, but its after-sales support and technical support should be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PowerEdge C writes "Easy to deploy and has high performance and no downtime". HPE Apollo is most compared with HPE ProLiant DL Servers, Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge FX and Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers, whereas PowerEdge C is most compared with Huawei FusionServer X Series. See our HPE Apollo vs. PowerEdge C report.
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