We performed a comparison between HPE Apollo 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."Absolutely being able to mount into Omni-Path architecture, HFIs on those nodes, because we were the very first site in the world"
"HPE Apollo's support is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"When we moved to the Apollo and all flash drives, we gained a lot of performance."
"The solution is well documented in a data sheet."
"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."
"With HPE Apollo, we can propose configurations with many hard drives, making it suitable for large storage needs."
"The technical support from HPE has always been good in my experience."
"PowerVM."
"The uptime feature is great."
"The most valuable features of the solution are disaster recovery, replication, and the ability to migrate to another location."
"The main feature that I have found most valuable is PowerVM - its virtualization feature which is the most powerful."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the hardware is really good and reliable."
"The solution does not require any maintenance."
"Power VM gives us the flexibility to increase or decrease machine resources when required."
"BM Power Systems get updated every two years and are scalable and stable."
"The solution's deployment, security, and scalability need improvement."
"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."
"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."
"There is a shared battery for all cache controllers in the node. When you have to replace that element, you have to take down all three nodes and not just one."
"What's coming out in Gen 10 is very strong in terms of additional security."
"The predictive analysis feature could be improved."
"We could, perhaps, use more GPUs in the future, go from eight to 16 GPUs per instance. That could run head-to-head against the DGX-1, the DGX-2 that NVIDIA has developed in their own chassis. That would be interesting to see."
"The support from HPE Apollo could be better, they are making knowledgeable."
"The lack of software vendors moving onto the platform, as opposed to fleeing the platform, is an issue."
"I would like to see the scaling model improved so it's not just either tiny or huge."
"I think IBM needs a little more work on managing the overall environment with eliminating Systems Director."
"IBM Power Systems could improve by having a cloud feature."
"The solution could improve the memory database for better integration with SAP HANA."
"Software testing and the compatibility of software products that are available in the market should be addressed."
"The pricing is high."
"It does not offer the ability to run any X86 or X64 Intel architecture-based application on Power Systems. There are a lot of applications, lots of business use cases that do not support this architecture as of now. If somehow application tasks can be ported on to IBM Power Systems, that would be a big improvement."
HPE Apollo is ranked 8th in Rack Servers with 22 reviews while IBM Power Systems is ranked 4th in Rack Servers with 69 reviews. HPE Apollo is rated 8.4, while IBM Power Systems 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 IBM Power Systems writes "A solution with minimal downtime and quick recovery time in the event of a sudden or unexpected crash". HPE Apollo is most compared with HPE ProLiant DL Servers, Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge FX and Oracle SPARC Servers, whereas IBM Power Systems is most compared with Intel Server System, Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, Oracle SPARC Servers, HPE ProLiant DL Servers and Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers. See our HPE Apollo vs. IBM Power Systems report.
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