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 solution's analytics helped to decrease production downtime by more than 60%. PowerEdge also helped to reduce data processing and has reduced the timing for any workload."
"The user interface is very simple, and the support team is always happy to answer any questions we have. They are very easy to contact."
"The maintenance and remote monitoring are valuable."
"The PowerEdge systems management frameworks have enabled us to progress towards full automation when it comes to managing PowerEdge."
"No down time and it's very user friendly."
"The defining characteristic of the Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers lies in their ability to function as the pivotal nexus of the server infrastructure."
"The use of OpenManage Console reduces the time it takes to manage PowerEdge Rack Servers in terms of updates and maintenance."
"The most valuable feature is reliability. We rarely have any issues and because of this, Dell is our go-to for servers."
"I use the hypervisor of IBM Power Systems a lot."
"What we like the most is the ability to upgrade the scaling of the system itself. Whenever we need extra storage, we can do that. Whenever we need extra memory, we can do that as well. It's fast and it's available."
"On the security side, we get regular security patch updates and system hardening. There are free tools available to harden the system."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the hardware is really good and reliable."
"Power Systems' best features include its user-friendliness and self-checking/self-healing abilities."
"The best features of the solution are its robustness and service level."
"The performance and stability are great."
"BM Power Systems get updated every two years and are scalable and stable."
"The scalability has room for improvement."
"I would like to change the physical rails to be more like how HPE rails are formatted and organized."
"System security can be improved. They can add more power and security for ESXi version 7."
"On the MX7000 platform, they should continue to release better and faster blades."
"Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers could improve the bezels in front of it."
"It would be easier if the remote connection to the server could be done through the USB port. From the server, we should be able to connect to a laptop or a management workstation through a USB port."
"There can be more visibility on the equipment remotely."
"I would like them to be more flexible when implementing more capabilities."
"I think the cost should be cheaper."
"The scalability process should be simplified."
"Better manage heterogeneous footprints of all the different operating systems that are out there across one common interface."
"If you asked me what I'd like added, I'd say that it'd be nice if they ran GPUs, however, I know that's not the direction they're going. That said, I would appreciate it if they offered GPU support."
"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."
"I would like to see firmware available to all of the systems."
"Technical support and documentation need to be improved."
"I think IBM needs a little more work on managing the overall environment with eliminating Systems Director."
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.