HPE ProLiant DL Servers Reviews

It has the scalability of the processors, high core counts, and additional memory capacity.

Obviously, more performance from having the higher core counts and the additional memory.

I would like to see additional work on making the intelligent provisioning work with VMware.

The stability has been very good. It is very reliable.

Scalability has been good as well. There's actually a scale from really low core counts up to the higher-end Intel processors.

I have used tech support for warranty claims. They are good and respond quickly.

We knew we needed to invest in a new solution because our customers asked for this series of servers. HPE is our primary go-to solution for servers, unless somebody asks for some other brand in particular. When looking for a vendor, the main differentiation between most of them is good back-end support. We've had good luck with HPE support.

The setup was straightforward.

Go for it and call HPE support if you get stuck.

The most valuable features of these servers are their stability and efficiency. We can download all the firmware, drivers, agents, utilities, and any other software as a single download.

We've been with these servers for a long time. We know the book on them and we know the partners who work with us. We have confidence in them, which means we don't need to spend money and waste time on maintenance and other issues unnecessarily.

It could use less power. We want to go green and so want to use as little energy as possible.

We got this a long time ago.

They deploy without any issues.

They're very stable.

We as an organization haven't been growing, so scalability is not relevant for us.

We get technical support through our own partner, not through HP.

My colleagues who set it up said the initial setup was OK. It wasn't simple but it also wasn't complex.

We're not going to see an ROI in 2016, but hopefully in 2017.

I would recommend you use them, especially if you have other HP products.

It's highly competitive in terms of cost and performance. There were other players, but one after another, they disappeared. If you ask your customers what's most important to them, it's always cost efficiency. They always complain about paying way too much. With HP, they're getting the best product for the money.

The most improvements that could be made would not be in the hardware commodity itself, but in the firmware. There's synergy between hardware and software, so you can't view hardware in an isolated way. So the improvements I'd suggest would be in the software that runs the servers.

I've been using it for 15 years or so.

We've had stability issues, but they weren't anything that other vendors don't have. In particular, we had problems with the DL585 generation 7. It has what we call a "Monday product", which is not hard to fix, but we've had much more trouble than others. These problems seem to be recurring for us.

For our scenarios, it's scalable.

We don't get direct technical support from HP, but rather from our partners.

Overall, we have a good partnership with HP and we are heavily invested in them.

I am using it to virtualize VMware. It is performing well.

• Performance
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I am impressed with the SimpliVity solution. I need to look a bit about this.

It is very stable; no downtime.

This solution is very scalable. When we bought the DL580, we bought it with full capacity. It is great for our business, and if we need to scale more, we can buy a new one.

We use HPE Datacenter support, and it is good support. It is automatic support. When I have a problem, the question is written automatically.

We were previously using another blade solution. We decided to switch because this solution provides more memory density.

The initial setup was easy.

Dell, IBM, etc. They fell short on the product baseline.

It is a good product.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: innovation.

They've been stable and we have got good performance out of them.

We have standardized our network on this equipment, so it makes it easy for maintenance, repairs and just standardizing our images.

It works well for us, but they should bring the price down.

We haven't had any problems with the newer equipment. As this stuff ages, things happen.

We cluster them so they scale beautifully with the way we do it.

I'm not impressed as you always go to the first-level support first, and it just takes forever to get to somebody that really can help you. We've already read the manual before we called support, but they read the manual to you again. They are responsive when you actually do get through to someone.

We've used IBM. We got away from IBM just because of the sheer cost for maintenance.

It's very straightforward.

We're strictly HPE at the moment so we haven't looked at anyone else.

I'd encourage them to use it. For the price and the functionality you get out of it, they work out great.

When compared to other servers and even other HP products, the most valuable feature we saw is that the performance is definitely better and it's easier to manage. I can't say that we've faced any problems after standing up these servers.

It's very important for our business that we have a server that's stable and reliable. These servers have been very, very stable and are performing well for us.

The biggest area of improvement I can think of is with more fiber connections. Adding more fiber connections would make them even better.

We've used it for more than six years.

They deploy very well without any problems.

It's stable, the most important factor for us.

They are supposed to be highly scalable servers, but we're using them in a utilization environment. In a utilization environment, I can't say that they're scalable.

Technical support is fantastic.

We evaluated other vendors and compared them with the same configurations, same amount of memory, same CPUs, and HP servers performed the best.

Perform a comparison between the same level of quality, same level of service, and same level of performance, and choose the product. I think you will find it the most suitable one for you.

The HP SmartArray, as this takes care of RAID rebuilding.

I've used 350 disks, had eight disk replacements, and two controllers over three years.

Better power usage monitoring would be nice.

I used it for three years.

When replacing RAID card in the server one must re-install the license for ADG/RAID6.

No issues encountered.

We increased the amount of shelves per server to six, and we have had no issues.

Great, it's just an e-mail.

It's good, but their on-site is not familiar with this setup.

We had a mixture of Sun Thor and HP C-class with AMS FC storage from Hitachi.

It went fine, and it even came pre-installed with RHEL, however, we reinstalled it with SL.

We did it in-house.

It works fine, it gave quite a lot of storage per rack unit. There are better options for storage density these days. Also, there are better options for more storage per rack unit, and more CPU power.

It is easy to configure and deploy. It is the same hardware. Whenever you buy the particular generation, it is the same. The parts inside don't change, which is nice.

The deployment software.

I would like some of the software products that they offer to be integrated. In other words, you buy the server and you get the software, instead of having to pay extra for the licenses.

It is very stable. We have run it for years.

It's pretty easy to scale.

We have used technical support a few times. It's pretty good.

We just evaluated it and other solutions, and we just chose this one.

The setup was pretty straightforward.

We evaluated Dell and Cisco. We liked the cost of this solution. We liked the software, even though you had to buy it separately.

When selecting a vendor, the reliability is the most important factor, followed by cost.

Definitely look at their solution.