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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    HPE ProLiant DL

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AHPE ProLiant DL is a rack server, from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.N/A

    LiveVault

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ALiveVault is a data backup and recovery option acquired by J2 Global from Iron Mountain.N/A
    Pricing
    HPE ProLiant DLLiveVault
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HPE ProLiant DLLiveVault
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    HPE ProLiant DLLiveVault
    Considered Both Products
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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    Ziff Davis Inc
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    HPE ProLiant DLLiveVault
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of HPE ProLiant DL and LiveVault
    Feature
    HPE ProLiant DL
    -
    Ratings
    LiveVault
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Universal recovery00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Instant recovery00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Snapshots00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Platform support00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    HPE ProLiant DLLiveVault
    Small Businesses
    Dell PowerEdge
    Score7.6 out of 10
    BDRShield
    Score6.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Dell PowerEdge
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Power
    Score9 out of 10
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HPE ProLiant DLLiveVault
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.3
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HPE ProLiant DLLiveVault
    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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    Ziff Davis Inc
    Our company was originally with VaultLogix which was taken over by LiveVault. The transition to the new product was not as smooth as expected and presented us with issues especially with a restore. Restore and what files needed to be included in the backup policy were not communicated to us correctly and it was not until a customer's server failed that we found out we couldn't do a restore because we were missing files that were needed for a complete restore.
    I don't believe it works very well for backups of virtual servers. Installation of the product is user-friendly.
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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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    Ziff Davis Inc
    • Easy to install the client piece.
    • Easy to setup the backup policies.
    • Data encryption and security.
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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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    Ziff Davis Inc
    • It does not play very well with virtual servers.
    • Support is not always responsive.
    • Issues with failed backups have cost our company time and money.
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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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    Ziff Davis Inc
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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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    Ziff Davis Inc
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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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    Ziff Davis Inc
    LiveVault is the only product we have used. The reason is that we chose it initially was the fact you can restore individual files. Also that the data is transferred offsite to a secure data center and data is backed up again, providing a second offsite copy.
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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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    Ziff Davis Inc
    • LiveVault has initially cost us more labor time than we anticipated for our IT staff.
    • Installing cloud backup has given us a piece of mind that our data and our customer's data is safe.
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