We performed a comparison between HPE Apollo, Huawei FusionServer RH Series Rack Servers, and IBM Power Systems based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo and others in Rack Servers."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."
"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."
"The technical support from HPE has always been good in my experience."
"With HPE Apollo, we can propose configurations with many hard drives, making it suitable for large storage needs."
"we can use the same platform for several use cases: Hadoop, Ceph, and we are considering the server for another use case right now. It's a single solution, we only have to integrate it once and we can use it for several technologies."
"The solution is well documented in a data sheet."
"HPE Apollo's most valuable feature is the ability to expand our storage capacity."
"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."
"The most valuable thing about Huawei FusionServer is the fact that it's easy to use."
"The performance and stability are great."
"The availability of a solution depends on the requirement of the customer. The most valuable feature is the virtualization. You can have this one system or you can use it for many. They were using almost 120 servers within that specific service."
"The best features of the solution are its robustness and service level."
"We've been using it for a long time, and it's stable."
"We found working with IBM Power Systems that LPM is the most valuable feature."
"Power Systems is like a dream solution for every IT person because it has redundancy, and it doesn't stop. It doesn't get affected easily. I don't see any weaknesses in this solution. At the moment, we have Power8. It is stable and runs smoothly. We have a big load, and it is working very well. It can be customized based on our needs. Flash copy is helping us amazingly. We have virtualization for vDisks, which is again very helpful. We are working on this virtualization technology, and we have a team that is working on redundancy and architecture."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Power Systems is its performance."
"IBM Power Systems are secure and have fast processing."
"Lustre seems to be just a little bit unstable overall."
"The solution's deployment, security, and scalability need improvement."
"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."
"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."
"What's coming out in Gen 10 is very strong in terms of additional security."
"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."
"HPE Apollo's after-sales support and technical support should be improved."
"The predictive analysis feature could be improved."
"In the next release, I'd like to see more features not in the hardware but in the platform where I can manage all the servers and the hardware of the servers."
"The pricing is high."
"There are improvements that can be made on the technical side."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"Its management can be made easier because it is not easy to manage. They should also find a new way for migrating from an old Power Systems to a new one. The migration process is currently very complicated. It should be made easier to scale. Currently, its scalability depends on the initial sizing, whereas in Nutanix HCI, you can add whatever you need and whenever you need it."
"I would like to see IBM Power Systems integrate with all cloud types."
"The pricing of the product could always be lowered."
"The number of times IBM refreshes its operating system appears to be very slow."
"I think IBM needs a little more work on managing the overall environment with eliminating Systems Director."
