HPE ProLiant DL Servers Reviews

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.

• Different form factors
• Small footprint
• Good compromise between pricing schema and available options
• Support and care packs add-ons

The product fits well between tight budgets and horizontal expansions.

More options beyond the ROM configurations for High Power computing and ULV (Ultra Low Voltage) deployments.

I've used the ProLiant servers since 2005.

The G6 was not a stable product.

If you had a Care Pack in place, the support was 9/10. In case you were left with no Care Pack, the best-effort option was worth nothing.

Many times the setup had to be agreed and consulted with HP representatives and technical after-sales staff.

Implementation was done in-house although physical installation was done through the vendor, as it was included in the price. When HP sent their consultants or staff to do the job, things moved faster. You should invest in your partners’ professional education MORE.

We consider ROI on not more than 24 months for our business cases, and hardware turnover on a three years basis. HP pricing and licensing schemas fitted well into our agendas.

Yes, we looked at equivalent products from SUN/Oracle and IBM. We chose HP for specific deployments and pricing comparison.

With x86 hardware, a lot of it is the same. The value goes back to HP's willingness to partner and HP having a roadmap for the x86 platform.

No issues with stability or other major issues.

No issues with stability or other major issues.

HP is a market leader for scalability and additions.

Support has been helpful. Both customer and technical support have been very responsive to help make things right.

It was a market shift into x86 hardware and more commodity-based hardware.

Initial setup was straightforward.

• IBM
• Lenovo
• Dell

We chose HP because they had the right combination of factors and willingness to partner.

Reliability, support, and performance. A roadmap for where they are going in the future is important. We have that with HP.

One of our customers wants some on-premises rack servers and AD servers. I suggested buying an HPE server and doing virtualization on that. We are considering HPE ProLiant Gen9 Servers.

The feature that I find the most valuable is that all alerts are integrated with HPE InfoSight. Any problem related to an HPE server can be solved remotely at L1, L2 level.

They can increase the controller cache. Currently, it has a controller cache of up to 4 GB. The RAID controller card comes with a maximum of 4 GB cache in HPE servers, whereas it comes with a maximum of 8 GB cache in Dell servers. 

They can also improve the port size. HP provides a 25 GB port on the server, whereas both Dell and Cisco provide a 100 GB port. 

I have been using this solution for five to ten years.

It is stable.

Scalability depends upon the solution we are proposing.

The initial setup is straightforward. It took a maximum of one and a half hours. The deployment duration also depends upon the operating system.

I would recommend this solution. HPE servers are better than Dell and Wipro servers. 

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

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.

We've used HP servers for a while now, and the most valuable features of them all, the DL series included, are the price and the quality. HP provides the best quality for the price.

We were using Dell before and we switched because HP has a range of products that, from our point of view, is exactly what we need. It supports a special power converter that's essential to us that Dell just doesn't have. We don’t need to do a lot of maintenance on the servers, so we need less people needed to manage them. HP provides us with great service as well, which helps us save on costs and other resources.

Although I compare them often to the Dell servers we used to have, these HP servers could be improved with faster memory. They perform well enough, but I might pay more for faster performance.

We've had no problems deploying these servers.

The stability is very good, 8/10.

Scalability is also very good, 8/10.

Technical service is outstanding, 9/10.

The initial setup was very easy and straightforward.

We evaluated Dell and Lenovo.

These are very reliable servers with a great warranty. Also, the price was very attractive. We required a complex solution for our organization in terms of hardware, software, and VMware implementations. These servers fit in quite well with our architecture.

A few years ago, we had a project for virtualizing all our servers. We chose HP products, services, and storage, including ProLiant servers, for this project. It worked out very well.

The software doesn't allow you to view isolated hardware issues. This needs to be improved.

We've been using them for more than 10 years.

We have no problems with deployment.

I don't think we've had any issues with stability.

It scales for our needs.

Technical support is very knowledgable.

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.