Refurbished Dell PowerEdge vs HPE ProLiant for SMB Virtualization

Hello EveryOne,

I am comparing refurbished Dell Power Edge and HPE ProLiant servers for a small business Virtualization setup.

The workloads will mainly be VM Ware ESXI, Hyper-V and a few Linux virtual machines.

I’m interested in:

• Reliability
• Power efficiency
• Noise
• Spare parts availability
• Long-term maintenance

If you’ve deployed either platform in production, which would you recommend and why?

I’d appreciate hearing your real-world experience.

Thanks!