HPE ProLiant DL Servers Reviews

• Reliability
• Scalability
• Performance

These products are used as corporate infrastructure servers and improve our ability to perform everyday tasks crucial to our business as well as allow for easy administration from an IT perspective.

As these servers are constantly evolving with better technology and performance, I would have nothing to offer in the way of a wish list feature additions.

I've used it for five years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

It's excellent.

It's excellent.

This product was installed prior to my employment, but I have used servers from HP in the past and have always been satisfied with them.

The initial setup was very straightforward with a step-by-step wizard to help me get the servers configured quickly. I’m especially impressed with the RAID setup wizard which makes setup of complex disk pools a breeze.

I implemented one of the servers myself all the way through. The others in our environment were setup by Microsoft prior to my employment

The ROI with these servers if fairly quick. Their reliability and uptime provide a quick return.

I would highly recommend purchasing an HP server product

Our primary use case is focused on harmonizing databases. The method of deployment depends on our clients and their needs.

The size can be improved by making it a little slick. Additionally, we are at a disadvantage in support for people in African countries using the product because we don't have access to the support team 24/7. The solution has several support levels, such as essential and proactive support. They can extend support to African countries.

We have been using the solution for five years and are currently using the latest version.

The solution is stable.

The solution is highly scalable because the processor core is high to the extent of a dual processor. This means it can handle a heavy workload and virtualization. It's one of the best products that can be effective in a virtualized environment.

I rate the customer service and support an eight out of ten.

The initial setup took a few hours.

Implementation was in-house and required at least two or more people, depending on their level of expertise.

The pricing of the solution is high compared to other products.

I rate the solution an eight out of ten. The solution is good, but the processing power can be improved. I recommend the solution to people who are considering implementing it.

We are using these servers as cluster nodes. We are running VM with Hyper-V.

This product is feature-rich and is easy to install.

Sometimes, there are connectivity issues and the server is not able to connect to our SAN. One example is when we reboot from SAN storage, we face issues such as not being able to detect the SAN port. After we installed two new physical hard disks, that issue went away. It should be more stable.

We have been using the ProLiant DL Servers for the past four years.

These servers are stable, although sometimes there are connectivity issues. We do plan to continue using them in the future.

This is a scalable product. We have a five-node cluster with close to 3,500 users using different applications.

Technical support is rapid and very good. They take our calls immediately and resolve issues within four to five hours. The last time we had an issue, it was resolved immediately.

The initial setup is straightforward and easy. It will take about an hour to deploy, from scratch.

We deployed this product ourselves.

We have a data center team and a NOC team, with seven people who are managing these servers.

This is a good product and I can recommend it.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

• They're incredibly reliable and we have no issues running them.
• We rely on the central management because we have a lot of remote locations where we have only limited IT staff.
• We only need to upgrade every five to six years.
• We can buy hardware from any vendor that will work with these servers.

Not only are they reliable, but the management interface is also great for us. Also, HP's support team knows the drivers of our system, so we can rely on them. We're confident that HP will deliver the latest drivers for the DL series to allow us to run the latest Microsoft applications.

We run many apps on it, such as MS Exchange, test development systems, and SQL servers. For development, we run RHEL.

There's always room for improvement somewhere.

I personally used HP servers since I entered the IT game back in '97, and then still continue to use HP servers in different companies.

We've had no issues with deployment.

We're very satisfied with the stability.

We have about 1,600 users worldwide. We have 2 ProLiant servers running all our EMEA and Asia mailboxes.

The technical support from HP is one of the reasons why we're still running HP ProLiant. Anytime we have a technical issue such as a hardware exchange, we just call HP and they take care of it.

The DL series it's quite easy to use. It's a commodity product and you can buy it at any reseller. If you have any technical reliability issues with other vendors, switch to the DL series.

Flexibility, scalability, and being a standard. I've used during my career. It's useful to know exactly where to go for information and where to go for support. It just works.

Just that support is really easy to get a hold of and when things are not functioning, they are able to get the right parts within the right SLAs and it just happens.

I would like to see an on-demand model. I think they are already going there. I would like to see something in which you can move your workloads to a cloud kind of offering. That would be something that would be ideal in the future.

From a pricing perspective, a consumption based model would be optimal. There are times when a complete purchase isn’t required and a short term burst of compute is needed.

The stability is really good.

The level of scalability depending on the product you choose. With the DL specifically, you can have as many hosts as you want or as much storage as you want. It is very modular. You can just keep bolting things on, essentially like LEGO.

I have used technical support, but not recently. In the past, they were really good when I used them.

I've only been with the organization a short time. The decision to go with this product was made before I started. The vendor, who did our infrastructure as a service offering, is an HPE partner. So we didn't really choose the solution, but rather, it came to us. And I wouldn't have chosen anything else anyway.

When selecting a vendor, I look for flexibility and support. Everyone has a good sales pitch. However, when it comes to actually executing on it and supporting it long-term, those are the really important parts that not a lot of people consider up front.

I was not involved in the setup at this organization.

Just make sure you look at the total cost of ownership and the long-term use case of what you're actually doing, versus the problem that you're trying to solve right now.

• Manageability
• Ease of maintenance
• Convenience
• Standardization

Ease of management and the low-cost ownership.

Since the management went from HPE SIM into OneView, the problem is that the older generations are not supported by OneView. The new ones are supported by OneView. We have two management platforms to manage these DL servers and it's kind of a pain in the neck. We like integration.

It's very stable.

It is scalable. The blade systems are very scalable. We just add blades as close as we need them.

I have used technical support, and they are good. Sometimes the telephone technicians go through the manual instead of with us. We already told them that we changed the stuff and we just need the part. It takes a little long sometimes.

The solution was already there when I joined, but it was the much older generation. We've been using DL380 since the first generation and we are now at Generation 9.

I was involved in the setup and it was straightforward.

HPE DLs are very easy to implement. There is a lot more manageability now than there used to be. The IDOL 4S is great at managing.

When selecting a vendor, we like to have an all-in-one solution, i.e., one company behind all the different products. We like to be able to have support when needed and a partner who can give us stuff as we need it.

Stability is the most important feature. We use it for the infrastructure as a service. We need stable service.

I would like to see more standardized management. In the past, there was a lot of mixture between the software and the hardware features.

It is stable and has been for many years. We have used HPE for three or four years and we don't have a lot of complaints.

We buy the biggest one each time and we multiply it by two every year. We need a lot of them. We set them up in clusters close to us, so there are no scalability issues.

I have used technical support, but primarily with warranty questions. We have no issues with technical support at all.

I was involved in the installation. It was straightforward and not complex.

We looked at Dell, Lenovo, and IBM.

We do a mini competition a few times a year and we buy a lot of servers. This is needed in the Netherlands. We started to use HPE.

We are looking for basic functionality and see if the solution conforms with open standards.

When choosing a product, price is an issue. If two products have the same specifications, then we have to choose the one with the lowest price.

My advice is to decide if you want a cheap and bad server, or if you want a stable and good server.