We performed a comparison between Dell PowerEdge Rack 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."The iDRAC feature is valuable. It is for remote handling. If there is a connection issue when we deliver a server to a remote site, we only need to ask them to switch iDRAC on. We then have direct access to the RAID server configuration without having switched it on."
"The GUI is accessible and everything is pretty much upfront. You don't get lost in navigating between the tabs."
"No down time and it's very user friendly."
"Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers is a user-friendly solution that provides performance stability."
"The reliability combined with management is what we like. The price is good too."
"Our customers do not ask for any service for the Dell EMC PowerEdge Rack Servers because they are very durable."
"The calculation potential with modern CPUs is valuable. We have the capacity to increase the number of CPUs per machine, and there are also energy savings."
"When it comes to energy consumption they're also very good. They don't use power because they're power-hungry, but because we use them very hard."
"Power runs our resilient data systems, our high-end databases, stuff that can't go down."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Power Systems is its performance."
"Some of the most valuable features are the processing power, stability, and security."
"The main feature that I have found most valuable is PowerVM - its virtualization feature which is the most powerful."
"The most valuable features of the solution are disaster recovery, replication, and the ability to migrate to another location."
"The backups work great, data recovery works great."
"The performance and stability are great."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"I would like to see better IOPS, i.e. the disc speed. That is the main limitation for scaling up the number of users."
"There is a suggestion to potentially revisit pricing."
"It needs improvements in the thermal design and the management of servers."
"I would appreciate the capability to carry out live updates without the need to take the system offline."
"The quality of support for this solution varies. Sometimes you get agents who are amazing and other times you get agents who take a long time to resolve your query."
"Enriching the operational efficiency of Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers could be achieved through the strategic implementation of a central management console hosted in the cloud."
"The analytics reports could be more useful."
"The product must provide more options to add GPUs to the machines."
"I would like to see IBM Power Systems integrate with all cloud types."
"IBM should provide a platform where users can learn about the storage and security of IBM Power Systems."
"The scalability process should be simplified."
"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."
"IBM systems are old technologies. I couldn't renew and get to use IBM Power Systems, and it offers users very expensive support."
"The solution could improve the memory database for better integration with SAP HANA."
"Technical support and documentation need to be improved."
"IBM Power Systems could improve by having a cloud feature."
Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers is ranked 1st in Rack Servers with 136 reviews while IBM Power Systems is ranked 4th in Rack Servers with 69 reviews. Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers is rated 8.8, while IBM Power Systems is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers writes "Storage solution used to host databases and support a company with more than 10,000 users". 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". Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers is most compared with HPE ProLiant DL Servers, Lenovo ThinkSystem Rack Servers, Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers, HPE Apollo and Huawei FusionServer RH Series Rack Servers, whereas IBM Power Systems is most compared with Intel Server System, Oracle SPARC Servers, HPE ProLiant DL Servers, Lenovo ThinkSystem Rack Servers and HPE Apollo. See our Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers vs. IBM Power Systems report.
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IBM Power Systems vs Dell PowerEdge Rack Server
IBM Power Systems is a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) system that contains 8 threads or over per core. This processor performs super-fast due to the RISC algorithm technology than any other Intel-based hardware (e.g., Dell, HPE, Cisco).
In Intel, there are only 2 or 4 threads per core and it performs according to CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer).
IBM Power system is a sustainable, reliable and obviously costly solution compared to any other Intel-based solution.Generally, IBM Power system is used in mission-critical systems.
Hi, simple and short if you want to learn more and more about computing then go with IBM and if you want to just deploy and move on then use Dell.
Dell has its own technologies and IBM has its own. All VM (Hana and other technologies) come after computing. If you know how computers compute technology you will do your best in this computing world and it's also good for your career.
thank me later :)
IBM Power comes with virtualization integrated (PowerVM), highly optimized (practically with no performance impact) - no need for VMWare, HyperV etc.
For database it is the recomended platform - even is Hana, Oracle (best combination with AIX) or DB2 (DB2 for me is the most autonomous database that you can have).
The downside of IBM Power could be the lack of support for Windows and the initial cost.