"The technical support from HPE has always been good in my experience."
"The cost benefit of this solution is most valuable. It is quite effective for the work for which we are using it. We are mainly running video servers on these, and we are quite happy with the resilience, density storage, and streaming capacity of the system."
"HPE ProLiant DL Servers have good performance and they support different types of applications."
"The hardware is reliable."
"We get good performance with HPE ProLiant DL Servers. They are really stable. We run all our applications smoothly. We have no problem at all."
"It's easy to upgrade, and it is very easy to take care of the firmware upgrades."
"Its reliability and after-sales support are very good."
"It's flexible."
"HPE ProLiant DL Servers are a great product. We don't have many complaints."
"The robustness of the design of the server is the most valuable. HP servers are easy to use and user-friendly. The server is not complicated, and it is easy to use ILO systems."
"The technical support from HPE has always been good in my experience."
"We are quite happy with it, but its price and storage density can be better."
"It has something called WorldView. They should do some enhancement over WorldView to run an operating system as a code. Such a feature would be amazing for running multiple servers. They are already working on this, and they can enhance the existing versions for this. It should also be cheaper. It is currently expensive."
"They should work with Microsoft to make licensing costs better. That's because the physical servers have processors with all these cores, and Microsoft now licenses Windows virtual server desktops based on the number of cores and the serving servers. So, if you got to build 10 or 20 servers on that desktop, you got to license them all with Microsoft. They should have a partnership with Microsoft to decrease the virtual licensing of servers in partnerships so that when you purchase the servers, you also get licensing for Microsoft on top of them. That's because it gets very expensive to license virtual operating systems to run on physical servers."
"Not all of the hardware is completely up-to-date."
"They can increase the controller cache. Currently, it has a controller cache of up to 4 GB. The RAID controller card comes with a maximum of 4 GB cache in HPE servers, whereas it comes with a maximum of 8 GB cache in Dell servers. They can also improve the port size. HP provides a 25 GB port on the server, whereas both Dell and Cisco provide a 100 GB port."
"The scalability of Gen8 models should be improved. They can also improve its price."
"HPE ProLiant DL Servers are not scalable."
"The price of this solution should be lowered to make it more competitive."
"They should continue to maintain the stability that is there."
HPE Apollo is ranked 6th in Rack Servers with 2 reviews while HPE ProLiant DL Servers is ranked 1st in Rack Servers with 31 reviews. HPE Apollo is rated 8.6, while HPE ProLiant DL Servers is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HPE Apollo writes "Easy to maintain, cost-effective, scalable, and resilient". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE ProLiant DL Servers writes "Built-in software management and redundancy for solid stability". HPE Apollo is most compared with Dell EMC PowerEdge Rack Servers, HPE Synergy, IBM Power Systems, Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers and Lenovo ThinkSystem Rack Servers, whereas HPE ProLiant DL Servers is most compared with Dell EMC 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.