HPE ProLiant DL

We had a POC on a Cisco UCS Blade system. We found that for our purposes, it required too much power. The particular system we had as POC required 4 x 30Amp circuits. We were going to use it to set up a VMWare ESXi cluster. In comparison, if we had used four HPE Proliant DL380 servers, we only needed 2 x 20Amp circuits. It also generated a lot of heat for the space that we had. We also found it just too cumbersome for what upper management wanted.

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.

Cisco does not have a range of UCS equipment for small businesses at affordable costs, this is what makes it important and strong in these types of sectors or growing fields or small businesses. Additionally, the cheaper Cisco equipment does not compare in price with HPE equipment, making them unique in this regard.

Better engineered and longer, more consistent production cycles. A G10 is a G10, even 3 years later. Many other brands make engineering changes constantly and the same model purchased a couple years apart use different drivers, different firmware, different parts. W can buy one server a year and keep dropping them into the same cluster because they're identical.

Cisco UCS Series is an enterprise-grade rack server offering from Cisco. It is a very reliable product and backed by Cisco's global support as well as a warranty. However, it is an expensive solution and not in the budget of many small to medium organizations. In these circumstances, HPE ProLiant DL servers give the best cost to benefit ratio and cost to performance ratio.

HPE ProLiant DLs are nice servers. They provide good performance, have scalability potential, are very reliable, and fit our expectations. Service support is high quality. In most cases, I prefer to buy HPE servers again and keep them as long as possible because they provide best of the best in uptime and usability.

Both Dell PowerEdge and HPE ProLiant are used in my environment but HPE has been in use longer, they are stable and reliable.

HPE ProLiant DL are very much reliable and performative products and support a large scale and variety of the workloads and environment from SMB to very large and mission critical environments. HPE ProLiant DL rack servers are very much energy efficient and performative for the various virtualized and non virtualized workloads. Products implementation and operational troubleshooting is very easy.

In my personal opinion, Proliant DL is much better than comparable hardware from other manufacturers. Although the price tag might (or might not be higher) you get what you pay for. The couple times we decided to invest in comparable hardware from two other manufacturers, it ended up costing us thousands in lost revenue due to 2 or 3 major failures that brought us down 1 or 2 days each time.

While Cisco and Dell make fine servers, the Compaq pedigree of HP ProLiant servers is in their DNA and one can see that by just opening one. The internal design is very well thought out and the modularity is unrivaled. While Dell may be cheaper for enterprise servers, one should not skimp on quality.

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.

I came from a Dell shop to an HPE shop. The PowerEdge series are good systems but I was never a fan of the iDRAC remote management component. I realize that this is subjective, but I also feel like firmware updates were more painful with Dell's servers. UEFI has leveled this somewhat, but I think HPE hardware is easier to deploy and manage. This is even more true once a unit is placed in production service.

These are complementary products, our HP servers running VMware connect to the Nimble SAN for storage and these work great together, it's like one big machine consisting of the VMware HP servers and the Nimble SAN (now owned by HPE). we run 10GB connections between these devices and they have no lag or other issues for the workload we have in place.

I formerly come from 100% Dell shops. I was thrust into an all HP environment and I was pleasantly surprised on how well the ProLiant brand solution stacks up to Dell PowerEdge. I think the HP solutions might scale better than Dell in a larger environment, but Dell has made in roads into that area. For organizations of our size, the two are pretty on par in terms on cost and features.