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HPE ProLiant DL vs. NetApp ONTAP Data Management Software

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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

    NetApp ONTAP Data Management Software

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/ANetApp's ONTAP Data Management Software is a storage and data management and protection solution. ONTAP 9 allows users to build an intelligent hybrid cloud that is the foundation of a NetApp Data Fabric that spans flash, disk, and cloud. Flexibly deploy storage on a choice of architectures—hardware storage systems, software-defined storage (SDS), and the cloud—while unifying data management across all of them.N/A
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    User Ratings
    HPE ProLiant DLNetApp ONTAP Data Management Software
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Usability
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    8.0
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    Support Rating
    9.3
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HPE ProLiant DLNetApp ONTAP Data Management Software
    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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    NetApp
    I have highly benefited from the performance of this great tool. Storage and data management programs have been running as planned since we deployed this system. Under NetApp ONTAP Data Management Software our data and customers contacts are always secure. It has helped our company in reducing storage costs as we can safely use cloud storage services. It gives us continuity guarantee even after our systems fail to function due to strong backup system.
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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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    NetApp
    • Cloud tool for easy multiple data management.
    • Creating reports is incredible through the package.
    • Data transportation and the real-time data analytics, this tool is the best ever.
    • Data threats Protection capability is amazing.
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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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    NetApp
    • More details on network interfaces are available in CLI. Would like to see similar visibility on the GUI.
    • Deleting volumes that have been snapmirrored have to be released at the snapmirror destination first. Would be nice to have that feature at the source where you are deleting the volume.
    • When creating a volume in the GUI it adds to the default junction point. Would be nice to choose the junction point as you were creating the volume (this is a feature available in the CLI).
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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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    NetApp
    Functionality is very impressive, practical, and useful. GUI could use several improvements.
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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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    NetApp
    NetApp support is always second to none. That being said I have never once had to contact support for the NetApp System Manager software. It is simple, stable and easy to use. Given that their support is stellar in all other areas I don't see how this would be any different
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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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    NetApp
    I have only used NetApp ONTAP Select platform in our organization in data storage and file management. It has efficiently managed all data-related problems and gives us the right roadmap of managing data from all sources effectively. Data migration from our company to the cloud storage datasets has been easy and secure. It provides reliable intelligence from all information gathered from our data sources that enhances better operations and smart decisions.
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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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    NetApp
    • Previously were were running with just locally attached storage across all of our estate. With this tool we are not able to simplify the management of storage saving on resource usage across our Ops teams allowing us to focus on "more important" tasks.
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