Reviewing the Dell PowerEdge R710

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Dell’s sleek new PowerEdge R710 aims to beat HP’s mighty ProLiant DL380 on all counts can it match up?

When we took an exclusive look at Dell’s PowerEdge R610 at the end of March we were bowled over by this 1U rack server innovative new features, slick design and value.

Now we move up to the latest 2U PowerEdge R710 and see whether it has what it takes to stand up to HP’s ProLiant DL380, which HP claims is the world’s best selling server.

The R710 as a system includes everything the R610 has to offer. This means it has a sharp focus on reduced power consumption, delivers Dell brand new centralised system management tools and, of course, has the Lifecycle Controller, which makes the eleventh generation PowerEdge servers quite unique. This delivers features such as build level audits, firmware version recording and options to transplant the servers settings to others for swift deployment.

I’m looking forward to a Dell event that I’m attending this week, the R710 certainly got great feedback, and it might be an ideal platform for virtualization or as an application/web server. I’m off to read up more about it, I’ve posted the firmware for it here.

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