HPE Proliant ML is a versatile and reliable server solution offering robust performance for IT infrastructure. It ensures efficient cooling, remote management, and supports virtualization, making it suitable for both small businesses and enterprise operations.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| HPE Proliant ML | 43.7% |
| Dell PowerEdge T-Series | 43.7% |
| Lenovo ThinkSystem Tower Servers | 8.3% |
| Other | 4.299999999999997% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 7 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 4 |
| Large Enterprise | 8 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 130 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 56 |
| Large Enterprise | 77 |
The HPE Proliant ML provides seamless deployment and effective power efficiency, maintaining consistent performance and minimizing downtime. With support for virtualization and data storage, the platform is designed for applications, databases, and network management. Its technical support and cost-effectiveness make it a reliable choice, while cloud management features facilitate multi-branch operations. Sustainability features align with environmental goals, catering to eco-conscious enterprises. Areas for enhancement include hardware assembly, firmware updates, quieter fans, and improved anti-rust measures. Enhanced cloud migration tools, remote troubleshooting, pricing strategies, and better scalability are needed. Its role in Active Directory, Hyper-V, and infrastructure creation makes it valuable for various data center and network management tasks.
What are the important features?HPE Proliant ML finds applications across industries, supporting Active Directory, Hyper-V, infrastructure needs, and network management. It is instrumental in managing file servers, ERPs, SAP systems, and virtualization tasks, meeting demands from head offices in diverse regions and facilitating complex operations with ease.
HPE Proliant ML was previously known as HP Proliant ML.
| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| IT support manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees | 5.0 | I use HPE Proliant ML for database and virtualization servers, valuing its excellent stability, powerful performance, and ease of management, especially with iLO. It delivers great ROI, is highly scalable, and I rate it 10/10. |
| Founder at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees | 4.0 | I rate HPE ProLiant ML 9/10 for its durability, consistency, and useful iLO. However, their customer support is poor, and high pricing led me to choose Dell for expansion, which offers better support. |
| Senior Presales Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees | 4.5 | I find HPE Proliant servers excellent for various uses, offering strong performance, stability, and easy remote management via ILO. While commercial aspects and frequent model changes could improve, overall, I rate it highly for reliability and scalability. |
| Technical Manager at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees | 5.0 | I rate HPE Proliant ML 10/10 for its excellent performance, strong management, and superior product quality, despite occasional bugs. However, I see a clear need for improvement in reseller support and customer service, which lags behind competitors. |
| Senior Manager Ict & Innovations at Bangalore International Airport Limited | 4.0 | I use the HPE ProLiant ML for virtualization and critical data center applications due to its 100% reliability and excellent data storage capabilities. While it outperforms IBM in functionality, I believe the product's support could be improved. |
| IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees | 3.0 | We use the HPE Proliant ML for database and file serving, finding its performance smooth and reliable. However, it could benefit from improved anti-rust protection and quieter fans. We also considered Dell products before choosing this solution. |
| Server and storage administrator at Banco de Costa Rica | 4.0 | I use the HPE Proliant server for VMware due to its affordable pricing compared to other platforms and excellent service from our local partner. However, the management tool, OneView, could use some improvements for better functionality. |
| Infrastructure Manager/Deployment Manager at Hivedome Consultancy Services | 4.5 | We use one HPE ProLiant ML for our secrets server and two for Hyper-V. While the servers perform well, updating the firmware can be difficult. We previously used Dell PowerEdge and switched to ProLiant due to HPE's discounts. |
| Operations & Business Development at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees | 4.5 | We use the HPE Proliant ML primarily for applications and our database. While the pricing could be improved, we've consistently used HP Proliant servers. We briefly tried Cisco UCS but returned to Proliant ML due to team preference. |
| Pre-Sales Engineer at INTEGRALYS | 5.0 | I use the HPE Proliant ML to build infrastructure, and I'm impressed with its ability to create clusters and virtualizations. However, I feel it could improve in cloud migration capabilities. I haven't considered any other solutions or providers. |
My main use case for HPE Proliant ML is servers for database or for other services in Linux.
For example, I use HPE Proliant ML for virtualization in OpenShift virtualization on a day-to-day basis.
For installation of database servers, for example in Red Hat and Microsoft SQL, virtualization in OpenShift is the primary use case I have.
In my opinion, the best features HPE Proliant ML offers are stability and ease of handling. For example, iLO is excellent for diagnosing the equipment or any trouble. It is very easy to update SPP parts for HPE.
iLO has helped me by allowing me to search for any malfunctioning inside the servers and install the OS remotely. I can connect easily via command-line interface. Applying updates for any system is an excellent product.
iLO is a very powerful tool.
HPE Proliant ML has impacted my organization positively as it is excellent equipment, very powerful, and very easy to manage. It is excellent hardware. HPE Proliant ML saves time. It is not expensive, very easy to install in any rack, very easy to configure, and easy to install any OS inside. Managing the RAID process is very easy. It is an excellent product.
All areas can be improved for HPE Proliant ML. It is an excellent product that is very helpful and very powerful for any area of use.
I have been using HPE Proliant ML since the beginning, from Compaq to HPE from the first generation of Proliant ML.
HPE Proliant ML is very stable.
HPE Proliant ML offers excellent scalability. It is very nice, and the scalability is excellent.
Customer support for HPE Proliant ML is excellent.
I have never used any solution other than HPE Proliant ML.
HPE Proliant ML is very stable.
I did not evaluate other options before choosing HPE Proliant ML. I only considered HP Synergy.
I have seen a return on investment with money saved, time saved, and reduced number of employees needed to handle the service. It is excellent.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is very satisfactory.
I did not evaluate other options before choosing HPE Proliant ML. I only considered HP Synergy.
My experience with HPE Proliant ML is excellent.
I would rate the customer support a nine on a scale of one to ten.
My advice to others looking into using HPE Proliant ML is that it is an excellent product. For example, you can get inside GPU cards for AI processes. It is very powerful, easy to handle, and easy to administer this service.
I think HPE Proliant ML is an excellent product. All products of HP servers are excellent products from my point of view.
I found this interview excellent. There is nothing I would change for the future.
I would rate this review a ten on a scale of one to ten.
I have experience with HPE NonStop and HPE Proliant ML as we have some ProLiant servers on our network that we're still using, but we might be moving them to Dell.
The best features with HPE Proliant ML are that it lasts, as they take conscious effort for their hardware. They take conscious effort to produce their hardware and it works consistently. Whatever solution you want to deploy, it's flexible to deploy such solutions. It's good generally. The only aspect that would make me not want to look into HPE is the support.
The iLO helped my daily IT operations by being really good, as we integrated it with our EMS server. We could get updates about the hardware, CPU, CPU runtime, and heat dissipation of the hardware. For data center monitoring, iLO is really helpful. For their competitors, Dell has iDRAC, which basically does the same thing. I don't think they have an edge. It's something that is generally deployed by other competitors also.
HPE Proliant ML's cooling capabilities have resulted in our organization's carbon footprint being really low, even when we were still using the HP ProCurve. In terms of power consumption, it's acceptable. We got about between 90 watts per box, based on our configuration, which is really low.
My opinions on HPE Proliant ML are that it is good; generally, HPE products are good. Where they're lacking is just the support. Support is central to what technical professionals do. It's not just deploying the product. We need support when we're at a crossroad to a particular solution we're trying to deploy with their product. That is where HPE generally is falling short and I think that is where the leakage in their revenue will be coming from, which they're auditing.
I used HPE solutions until I decommissioned them less than six months ago.
Their intuitive system firmware has not impacted our downtime. We use the firmware upgrade manager, but whenever we need to, we plan our downtime around it and move our services because we have our VMs running on most of their hardware. We move things around to free up the hardware in question, do the upgrade, and normalize everything.
I would rate their support on a scale of one to 10 as being a four score. I would probably give them four or three for the effort.
Neutral
My thoughts on pricing are that it's pricey. When we were doing our data center expansion, we wanted to continue with HPE, but the price point did not match with our budget. We had to go with Dell, who gave us a very good offer.
Dell would be better with the pricing, as they have better support for both hardware and solutions.
I have experience with HPE solutions as I just decommissioned all the HPE ProCurve in my network because of the brand and the support we needed from HPE. It was proving to be obsolete for our domain.
I used HPE's iLO for remote management in office.
I have not utilized the storage enhancements in HPE Proliant ML.
I rate HPE Proliant ML a nine out of ten.
Clients are using HPE Proliant ML for different purposes. Some are using it for their AD servers and network management solutions. They are also using the DL series for their ERPs and SAP.
For HPE Proliant ML, the ILO functionality and secure chipset are the best things which customers opt for. ILO is used for remote management and is very easy to manage and work with. The ILO works very smoothly for remote management, and the server performance is far better than other servers.
The power efficiency is very good in these servers. The cooling capabilities work pretty well, as we have never faced any problems due to heat, though the servers are only kept in a cooling environment.
Everything is good, but we are facing some issues with the commercials and the fact that servers are being replaced by newer models very frequently. HPE should keep the old servers available as well.
The server models coming today are being replaced every six months or every year. They stop selling the older ones, which creates some problems sometimes. They should keep older models available for a longer period, perhaps two to three years.
It has been almost three years since we started using HPE Proliant ML.
Stability is excellent. I would give it a 10 out of 10 because we see very little breakdown in the server.
Scalability depends on which model you are positioning and how you position it. The servers are easily scalable, and if you pitch the right product in the beginning, you can easily scale without any problems.
Support is good. I would rate it nine out of ten.
Positive
In terms of performance and other aspects, HP stands out. When comparing commercial pricing, Dell is quite competitive. If we compare it to Lenovo and HP, Dell is very price competitive.
The setup process is simple and there are no problems with it.
We are selling it directly to the customer.
HPE Proliant has been our primary choice. We have been selling it for almost two to three years now, and we would have received almost two to three percent of breakdown calls. The servers are very stable, customers are happy, and they are very much scalable if the customer requires scalability. I would give it nine out of ten. On the server front, I would rank HP first, Dell second, and Lenovo third.
We have stopped doing PowerVault. We are currently doing storage solutions with NetApps. We are doing HPE Proliant DL series and ML series, both. The power efficiency is very good in these servers. Overall, I would rate this product nine out of ten.
Most of my customers are using it for the infrastructure and database, and of course, the virtualization.
The main advantage of the HPE Proliant ML is their long history, so customers can be confident that if they decide to use the HPE platform, HPE will continue to support them. This is the most important aspect in my opinion.
The management capabilities are leading with server hardware management, specifically their iLO platform management which is very good. They now also have cloud management that benefits customers with many branches, allowing them to manage all servers in all branches from a single location, potentially reducing costs.
The performance and usability when deploying systems on HPE Proliant ML ensures that solutions proposed to customers will run smoothly with fewer problems. The cooling is quite good, though in some models the fan was louder than others, but this has been fixed in newer models. The cooling system benefits customers pursuing Sustained Development Goals (SDG) due to the low carbon footprint in the server.
The cloud management particularly stands out because when examining customer problems, we access the HPE Cloud to check the status first. This helps us as resellers to better identify and assess customer issues.
The customer relationship is satisfactory, but from a reseller perspective, there is a lack of understanding and knowledge transfer for resellers recently.
There is a need for improvement in technical capability development for resellers to understand features such as storage enhancement. They lack a clear roadmap and path for engineers to improve their capability to support customers. This appears to be their weakest point, possibly because HPE Proliant ML is so well-known that they may have reduced focus on reseller support.
Occasionally there are firmware bugs, but these occurrences are infrequent compared to other providers.
The solution is actively being used.
Recently, a bug originated from their processor manufacturer, Intel, requiring new firmware to fix the CPU issue. They occasionally experience bugs in the storage controller and hard disk as well.
The scalability is quite suitable for our current customers. Most of our customers are medium to small businesses, and the scalability is comparable to Lenovo and Dell products.
Their customer service performance is below that of Dell and Lenovo. From my perspective, they lack sufficient empathy in their support approach and struggle to understand customer needs.
Positive
In terms of product quality, HPE Proliant ML surpasses Lenovo and Dell. They effectively keep pace with market developments and are sometimes ahead of the market.
As a system integrator, I provide services for customers using Nutanix, vSAN, and other solutions. I work with Nutanix software storage and hyper-converged infrastructure, along with vSAN, SimpliVity, HPE, Windows, and Windows Server Storage Spaces Direct. I also work with HPE Proliant ML, disaggregated HCI, and Nimble Storage, including both ML and DL.
I have been working with HPE Proliant ML since the first generation, and it is very easy to work with as our team has more than 10 years of experience. Most customers currently operate in a hybrid environment. Overall, I rate my experience with HPE Proliant ML a 10 out of 10.
The tool is designed for virtualization and critical data center applications. Therefore, as customers, we use it for such purposes.
The solution is well-suited for virtualization and standalone applications, like data center environments. There is 100% reliability. Additionally, it provides significant benefits in terms of data storage capabilities.
The product’s support should be improved.
I have been using this solution for three years now.
The product is stable.
The solution is scalable. We have 1500 users and two administrators for HPE ProLiant ML.
We tried IBM, but HPE ProLiant ML has better functionality. The company plans to continue using the product in the future as well.
The initial setup was straightforward, and the deployment was completed within two days.
The tool is definitely worth the money.
The solution is good because of its data centers and reliability on the data side. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten, with ten being excellent.
We use it for database and file serving.
It is hard to pinpoint the most valuable features of HPE Proliant ML because everything does its job and runs smoothly.
One area where the product could improve is in its anti-rust protection, especially at the bottom, which has shown some signs of rusting. The fans are also very noisy when the machine is working hard.
I would rate the stability a seven out of ten. We have had some downtime with it.
The product is quite scalable. I would rate it a nine out of ten. We have around 40 users of it at the moment and only one person is needed to maintain it.
The technical support is fine but it can be slow at times. I would rate it a seven out of ten.
Neutral
The initial setup was very simple. An external IT company set it up for us.
It is a fairly pricey product. I would rate it a three out of ten in terms of affordability.
We considered using Dell products as well.
Overall, I would rate HPE Proliant ML a six out of ten.
We use HPE Proliant server for VMware.
We have good service with our local partner. HPE Proliant's price is cheaper than other platforms. When we buy them, we have to receive some prices in order to make our decision.
HPE Proliant has a managed tool called OneView that could be improved.
The solution's initial setup is easy, but adapting the server to our necessities is difficult. They have a bulk solution, and the problem is you can modify anything.
On a scale from one to ten, where one is the cheapest and ten is expensive, I rate HPE Proliant's pricing a five out of ten.
Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Updating the firmware could be easier. It's always a hassle, and the process HPE describes on their website doesn't seem to work well.
I have used ProLiant servers for eight years.
I rate ProLiant servers 10 out of 10 for stability. We periodically need to replace components like disk drives, but HPE customer care is good about replacing them.
We have three ProLiant servers, and that's enough to meet our needs.
We've used Dell PowerEdge servers and various white box servers. We switched to ProLiant because HPE was offering them at a discount when we purchased them.
Deploying a ProLiant server is straightforward and only takes about half a day. After deployment, the servers don't require much maintenance aside from periodic firmware updates. They need to be replaced or upgraded once every four years.
ProLiant servers could be cheaper. We don't need to pay for a license, but we pay for customer care and an extended warranty, which we need to use the servers in production.
I rate HPE ProLiant ML servers nine out of 10. I would recommend them.
Basically, we primarily use it for applications, and one of them is for our database.
There is room for improvement in pricing. It could be on the lower side.
It is a stable product.
It might be scalable because, until now, we haven't had the opportunity or requirement to scale it up. Maybe a couple of years down the line, we may need to scale it up because scalability was kept in mind when we initially provisioned it four to five years ago.
Currently, there are 15 to 20 users in our company.
The customer service and support team is good. We are a part of Cisco, so we haven't faced any challenges as such.
Positive
We have been using HP Proliant servers from the start. At one point, we tried the Cisco UCS option as well, but the team wasn't happy, so we switched back to Proliant ML.
The initial setup is straightforward because the team has had hands-on experience for past many years, so we've never faced such a challenge.
We have our own in-house team, so only in case of any RMA situations do we contact the OEMs.
The pricing is not reasonable, but compared to Cisco, it is a bit on the lower side.
I would recommend using the solution. One can go ahead and easily deploy Proliant ML without any issues.
Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.
We use the solution to create the infrastructure.
I am impressed with the tool's ability to create clusters and virtualizations.
I would like the solution to improve cloud migration.
I have been working with the solution for 10 years.
I would rate the product's stability a ten out of ten.
I would rate the solution's scalability a ten out of ten. My company has more than 50 people for the product. We have mostly SMB customers.
The product's setup is easy and I would rate it a nine out of ten. The tool's deployment took a few hours to complete.
I would rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten since it's pretty expensive. We pay around 10,000 euros a year in Europe.
I would rate the product a ten out of ten.
