Dell PowerEdge vs. VersaStack

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dell PowerEdge
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Dell's PowerEdge R is a line of rack servers, offering a range of options from cost-efficient one-socket servers to four-socket servers designed to support intensive and critical data center workloads.N/A
VersaStack
Score 8.2 out of 10
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VersaStack(TM) Converged Infrastructure solution, jointly developed by IBM and Cisco, aims to deliver efficiency, performance and economics. It combines a comprehensive set of converged infrastructure and software-defined technologies from IBM and Cisco. Using VersaStack, organizations can modernize their datacenter, deliver versatile environments, as well as enable public, private, or hybrid, multi-cloud environments.N/A
Pricing
Dell PowerEdgeVersaStack
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Dell PowerEdgeVersaStack
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Free/Freemium Version
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User Ratings
Dell PowerEdgeVersaStack
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10.0
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Usability
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Support Rating
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User Testimonials
Dell PowerEdgeVersaStack
Likelihood to Recommend
PowerEdge C Series is very reliable equipment from a reference manufacturer in the market with a lot of experience and one of the best warranty and technical support services. Dell hardware provides us with resource savings, energy savings of up to 40%, scalability, physical space optimization, and performance and reliability to handle sensitive and critical data such as databases and ERP systems that are quite complex.
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Versastack dashboard configuration is quick through the technical assistant and the ability to handle multiple projects data from one point is profitable. The Versastack also simplifies the multi cloud environment management and to connect with the third part solutions is simple. Versatile environment deliverance is another best thing on Versastack and data security is good.
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Pros
  • Good price - Compared to other vendors’ server platforms. In our scenario (virtualization) we found out PowerEdge offers the best price/vCPU and RAM ratio.
  • Customizable - We were able to select optimal memory/disk capacity for our use case. Other platform's minimum requirements were above our needs, hence needlessly expensive.
  • Good warranty and service - Our project did not involve creating a big cluster with a lot of spare capacity, so the next business day warranty came handy.
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  • Excellent datacenter management tool.
  • Data transfer is amazing.
  • Resource allocation features are fantastic.
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Cons
  • Getting DSAT report remotely does becomes a challenge sometimes
  • Server rebooting becomes an issue, it does not starts up easily
  • Server heats up sometimes a lot, emitting lot of noice
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  • Not much the product is very tricky to set.
  • Some features configuration needs professional
  • Managing imported big data across many platforms.
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Likelihood to Renew
It is the best server in the market.
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Usability
The Dell PowerEdge R range is just intuitive when you have skills engineers managing them in-house, although even with new members of staff on the team, the learning curve is very low providing they have previous general service hardware management experience. From the specification through to the management of this range, the usability is excellent.
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Support Rating
We consider Dell's support to be best-in-class compared to other solutions and is also reasonably priced. Their SLA targets have almost always been met, except for minor occasions that have had extenuating circumstances. The service staff is also professional and thorough. Overall, we are very satisfied with the level of support we receive.
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Implementation Rating
Installation was easy.
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Alternatives Considered
When it comes to multitasking networking and storage, I've always found Dell PowerEdge C to be the most effective solution. A network center that can service the whole business with capacity for future expansion is ideally suited for this device. The ability to consolidate data into a single storage system has reduced workloads. Using this platform is simple and the customer support team is constantly available.
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Through the use of Versastack tools is an easy process on different project resources management, protecting multiple dataflow across various environment is also incredible and reliable datacenter modernization solution. The reports produced by the Versastack tools are accurate and easy to transform and the pulling of different data from other data sources is cost effective and secure.
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Return on Investment
  • From the perspective of physical server consolidations, when servers spread across multiple branch and remote offices are gathered into a central data center, this simplification process provides ROI in several ways. One, the configuration control, restriction of server access.
  • Reduce complexity and enable greater standardization of hardware purchases, which lowers costs.
  • Increased security of the move are important.
  • The costs of moves, add-ins, and changes are reduced, as well as the costs of travel time and maintenance.
  • Migrating legacy operating systems to a newer version via rehosting brings similar ROI benefits when it comes to server consolidation.
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  • With Versastack is very productive on various project resources allocation.
  • Easy to access and integrate to other platforms.
  • Excellent performance deliverability and reporting system.
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