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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    HPE ProLiant DL

    Score5.9 out of 10
    N/AHPE ProLiant DL is a rack server, from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.N/A

    HPE ProLiant ML

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AHPE's ProLiant ML is a line of tower servers for SMBs.N/A
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    HPE ProLiant DLHPE ProLiant ML
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    HPE ProLiant DLHPE ProLiant ML
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    HPE ProLiant DLHPE ProLiant ML
    Considered Both Products
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Chose HPE ProLiant DL
    The ML series is a bit more expensive and also larger, it does pack more power but the DL stands above in terms of performance and cost when comparing the two. The DL also has great storage capacities where the amount of desired bays can be installed and even at a later time.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Small Businesses
    Dell PowerEdge
    Score10 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Dell PowerEdge
    Score10 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    IBM Power
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HPE ProLiant DLHPE ProLiant ML
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (14 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Usability
    9.3
    (10 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    9.3
    (10 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    HPE ProLiant DLHPE ProLiant ML
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    It's well suited for a VMWare Esxi cluster setup. You are guaranteed to have the same CPU chipset to ensure the servers on the cluster are compatible with each other. We've had to stagger the purchase of systems by six months and have had compatibility issues. It's also well suited for I/O such as MS SQL or Oracle databases, Exchange servers, domain controllers. Pretty much any server setup will work with no issues on the HPE Proliant DL line. It's less appropriate as a NAS server, we had purchased one that ran on Windows Storage. Since it was more or less running Windows as a single controller, we had issues where it has locked up and caused an outage.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    HPE ProLiant ML series servers are an excellent choice for SMB's looking to have a reliable yet feature-rich and economical starting price server on their premises. I found the process of installing hardware components very easy and quite user-friendly. The server is running great with Windows server and exchange installed, so I would highly recommend it at least for this purpose.
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    Pros
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Highly reliable. We've never had one go down unexpectedly in 11 years.
    • High performance. Current 380 G10s are configured with 1.5TB of RAM, always the shortest commodity in virtual environments.
    • Great manageability: iLO boards allow us to run headless without the Advanced license even.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • The pricing starts from economical level.
    • Modern look.
    • Cooling is really taken care in this series by HP.
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    Cons
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • iLO Advanced - I feel like this is just a money grab. Give me the remote features, at least the remote console, with the purchase. I'd be OK with paying for the advanced license for more centralized functionality, but straight remote sessions? That should just be there.
    • Software entitlements and online interaction are a little wanting. This isn't the hardware per se, but enterprise products are often heavily tied to online services and tools and that could be a lot better.
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    Usability
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    We have been using these servers for many years now and we have used different generations of this product line. We have never faced a catastrophic issue using these and even the smaller issues that we have faced have been dealt with by the technical support team of HP. They have been a reliable partner in our data center.
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    Support Rating
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Overall, HPE support meets our requirements. They offer handy 24x7 phone support with clear case resolution interface. Engineers from HPE know their hardware and software. They are polite and help to find quick solutions for their customers. We don't need to prioritize our service requests to account managers to find how to fix or improve our service support.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    I've used Dell poweredge servers and they were great too, but I found remotely deploying HPE hardware was significantly easier and faster. One thing I love about HPE is when i got to deploy an OS remotely via iLO I can utilize the virtual media URL as opposed to mounting an iso. these eliminates the SSL overhead and the OS can be deployed in under an hour. Mounting an ISO has proven reliable but due to the SSL overhead it can take hours. In addition i found im able to register my HPE hardware with HPE and they provide me a clean IT dashboard of all of my hardware and they give me alerts as to expiring support coverage, if a server is down or reporting an error. its a very solid and reliable solution all around.
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    Return on Investment
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Allowed us to move forward with running web-based applications and to scale them as needed.
    • The lack of future driver support has made it difficult to consider upgrades, we may need to go with more expensive hardware in the future to be able to maintain upgrades.
    • While we have not realized all the business growth benefits we expected from this investment, we have had much more flexibility and options when we need to change our environment to meet the business needs.
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