We performed a comparison between Dell PowerEdge M and HPE BladeSystem based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Blade Servers solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution offers remarkable flexibility, reliability, and extensive software support."
"The networking features for administration and working with the server are valuable."
"The solution integrated well."
"I have compared Dell EMC to other solutions and have found it to be good. The SAN and LAN traffic, manageability, and upgradability are all good."
"The solution's most valuable features are centralized monitoring and management and the ease of upgrading firmware."
"The solution is made with high-quality hardware."
"It's great for managing overall infrastructure."
"Its ease of management, consolidation, connectivity, power, and cooling are the most valuable features."
"This has drastically reduced our datacenter space, has good cooling and power consumption."
"The density of the BladeSystem, that we can keep adding blades as we need more VMs."
"With just one cable, for redundancy let's say two, you can feed sixteen servers in a single c7000 chassis."
"HPE BladeSystem provides good commuting performance."
"The solution uses a smaller space in our data centers. It uses less feeder and network cable, which reduces costs."
"Wide choice in mixing SAN and LAN."
"Uptime and service are valuable for us. When we have an issue, uptime and being able to get an emergency replacement or actual service is the most important thing for us."
"The firmware updates for the product need improvement."
"Can be improved by being proactive in making changes that could improve the solution."
"Technical support is not good."
"In terms of improvement, it should also offer a hyper-converged option."
"More interconnections with third party equipment and limited I/O selection."
"Dell PowerEdge M lacks GPU nodes and doesn't have a direct solution for GPUs."
"I would like to have additional HPC and AI capabilities on general Dell PowerEdge servers."
"We have had some issues with the vendor's support that we have received. When you open up a support case with Dell they send a partner to assist you and in our experience, they are lacking knowledge about the solution. There are times when you need professional support from the vendor that knows the solution well."
"Storage capacity could be enhanced."
"Currently, in the case of a disk failure there is a need to remove the whole bay and as a result, to disconnect all the other disks."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve by providing the latest generation processor engine, such as the I-Flex processor."
"It may be coming to its end of life."
"HPE BladeSystem could improve the communication between the server and the storage."
"I'd like to see an all-in-one packet in the future."
"There could be more management capability to work with integrations."
"HPE BladeSystem can improve proactive monitoring."
Dell PowerEdge M is ranked 4th in Blade Servers with 14 reviews while HPE BladeSystem is ranked 2nd in Blade Servers with 134 reviews. Dell PowerEdge M is rated 8.4, while HPE BladeSystem is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Dell PowerEdge M writes "Average pricing and good feature sets but is complex to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE BladeSystem writes "Very reliable, expands well, and is pretty simple to set up". Dell PowerEdge M is most compared with HPE Synergy, HPE Superdome X, Cisco UCS B-Series, Super Micro SuperBlade and Fujitsu Primergy BX900 Series, whereas HPE BladeSystem is most compared with HPE Synergy, Cisco UCS B-Series, Super Micro SuperBlade, HPE Superdome X and Pure Storage FlashBlade. See our Dell PowerEdge M vs. HPE BladeSystem report.
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