We performed a comparison between HPE Apollo and HPE ProLiant DL Servers based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Rack Servers solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Apollo Systems provide stuff that standard services do not. More HTDs, more compute power, at very reasonable pricing."
"The technical support from HPE has always been good in my experience."
"With HPE Apollo, we can propose configurations with many hard drives, making it suitable for large storage needs."
"It's very reliable. I haven't had a single failure at all in the year and a half; not the slightest problem with it."
"HPE Apollo's support is the most valuable feature."
"we can use the same platform for several use cases: Hadoop, Ceph, and we are considering the server for another use case right now. It's a single solution, we only have to integrate it once and we can use it for several technologies."
"HPE Apollo's most valuable feature is the ability to expand our storage capacity."
"It's pretty flexible. You can choose how much storage you put on the server. You can have one to three nodes, depending on whether you want more CPU or storage."
"The ProLiant DL Servers are stable and reliable."
"The most valuable features of HPE ProLiant DL Servers are very high quality."
"Where there is a need to actually expand on the capacity, it's easily done, especially when more memory is needed."
"The pricing of the product is fair and not too expensive."
"The initial setup was easy."
"It's easy to upgrade, and it is very easy to take care of the firmware upgrades."
"In regards to the components that you can put into the servers, I feel that HP provides a wider variety of parts in comparison to Dell. For example, there is the ILO which is a network cable that goes into the server and reports back with an abundance of information about the server, even when it is off."
"It is stable and easy to set up."
"The technical support from HPE has always been good in my experience."
"We would like to see SimpliVity on top of the Apollo."
"The solution's deployment, security, and scalability need improvement."
"HPE Apollo's after-sales support and technical support should be improved."
"If there could be some training for our team, we would be better equipped to promote and support HPE Apollo."
"One drawback which I had: When I needed to expand storage on the Apollo, I had significant problems getting disks for it. It was a very long wait-time. So, if I were to give any advice in regards to improving this product, I would say make more of the 8TB disks available quicker."
"The support from HPE Apollo could be better, they are making knowledgeable."
"Lustre seems to be just a little bit unstable overall."
"The most pressing issue is that downloads depend at present on the current period."
"I would like to replace a hard drive that might be saved on the fly, on the server that I'm using currently, but I can't do that. I'm forced to power off my virtual machine, turn off the server, disconnect it from the power, replace the drive, rebuild the storage, and power it on again."
"We found that the extensions could be improved and the price could be a little lower."
"The solution is a little bit expensive."
"The price of this solution should be lowered to make it more competitive."
"The support lifecycle for the product for the Telco application should be better."
"It's scalable but we are switching to workstation for some software because the CPU speed isn't fast enough anymore."
"The cost of the solution is high and has room for improvement."
HPE Apollo is ranked 6th in Rack Servers with 22 reviews while HPE ProLiant DL Servers is ranked 2nd in Rack Servers with 156 reviews. HPE Apollo is rated 8.4, while HPE ProLiant DL Servers is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE Apollo writes "An affordable and easy-to-implement solution, but its after-sales support and technical support should be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE ProLiant DL Servers writes "Good availability and management console with good reliability". HPE Apollo is most compared with Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge FX, Dell PowerEdge XE Servers and IBM Power Systems, whereas HPE ProLiant DL Servers is most compared with Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, Lenovo ThinkSystem Rack Servers, Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers, IBM Power Systems and Huawei FusionServer RH Series Rack Servers. See our HPE Apollo vs. HPE ProLiant DL Servers report.
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What services do you want to serve on your servers?
It's very dependent on your answer, is it maximum ten disks Ok for you (DL360) or you want more? Do you need many PCIe slots?
It depends on what you actually need to do. Apollo servers are designed for significantly more disk density. If these are hypervisor hosts, the DL360s will generally be more useful. If these are standalone servers running single applications that require a lot of storage (for example, a Veeam backup server), the Apollo servers would be better.
I didn't work with Apollo but as far as I read about it and as others said, it depends on your purpose.
Apollo's approach is node computing for high-performance computing and graphic purposes and cost more than Proliant servers. And if you need more disk on your server (locally), I recommend disk enclosures as in this way you save a lot of money than purchasing a higher grade server.