HPE ProLiant DL Servers Primary Use Case
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Sreevatsa M
Systems Administrator at Diyar United Company
These servers were primarily used for Windows servers. The use cases remained the same throughout. For instance, back in 2010, G5 or G6 would have been deployed for the active directory or as a high-end backup server. During that time, we needed servers with higher performance. However, as we progressed, we gradually adopted Hyper-V and VMware for administrative purposes. This transition allowed us to enhance performance and consolidate our infrastructure by migrating to VMs and shared servers.
By 2015, these older physical servers were phased out, and it became challenging to find compatible parts. Therefore, we decided to leverage virtualization technologies. The company owned this equipment, but they eventually decommissioned it. So, considering the lifecycle and practical aspects, it was not an issue. Due to the lifecycle, these servers were left out.
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Gabriele Marini
IT Consultant at SPE
We use it for backup and disaster recovery.
View full review »The use cases attached to the solution can be anything on the database, or it can be a part of a cluster, like an HPC cluster, general-purpose servers, or ad servers. The tool's use cases can vary, and it all depends on the customers as to what exactly they want to start with and scale up.
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HPE ProLiant DL Servers
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ErkanVarol
IT manager at Koleksiyon
The solution is used for storage.
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Parag Veerkar
Vice President at DWS Group
We primarily use the solution as a server. We use it for hosting Oracle databases.
View full review »We run all of our on-prem operations on HPE ProLiant DL Servers. This includes both VMware and Hyper-V virtualization. We also have a business-to-business portal with them, allowing each of our markets to order directly.
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Parimal Sardar
Senior Manager - SBR Technical Services at Reliance Industries Ltd
I'm part of the engineering and implementation team. I'm not an end user of HPE ProLiant DL Servers, but I know the product features and can use HPE ProLiant DL Servers. I look at the documentation, so I know what to do, and if something is missing, people can come to me, and I try to solve the issues at my level.
The product is used for multiple applications and acts like a CRM solution, though the company is migrating to an HP solution.
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Mohammad Reza Ghazaei
Network manager at Farabi
We have local storage. We typically use the service for processing. We have a visual solution, and we are connected to the storage directly. In our company, we have around 1,000 virtual machines. We have more than 200 production servers.
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NirmalNandakumar
Technical support at SECURADO
We have multiple use cases for HPE ProLiant DL Servers, such as setting up VDS software.
View full review »We use ProLiant servers for Enterprise Asset Management services.
View full review »We primarily use the solution in our company and our client's company.
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Felix Brizuela
IT systems consultant at GrupoTTA
With HPE ProLiant, you can run a Windows operating system or a Linux OS based on Intel architecture. We also use several applications like iLO to manage the servers within the architecture of our serverless AMD processors.
Alternatively, you can use another monitoring solution like HP OneView to manage ProLiant Servers. It's a product for monitoring and managing the servers. In addition to monitoring software, ProLiant can be managed with a cloud-based solution. For example, HP's cloud-based InfoSight solution lets you monitor your server and storage, including ProLiant and Intel.
ProLiant can be mounted in different types of server racks, like a CD or tower. The tower solution of ProLiant is for a small site or office. With this type of tower server, you can add a kit as well. ProLiant has several servers: 150, 350, 380. And there is another ProLiant architecture that you can install in a Synergy and BladeSystem enclosure.
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MD-MONIRUZZAMAN
Assistant Vice President at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are using the solution for less critical services.
View full review »We have one SQL server, one repository called Solidworks Designs, and one called Karmatic.
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Kerithea Ream
Head of IT Infrastructure at AMK Microfinance
We use the solution for the DR site and run it on the infrastructure system.
We use ProLiant servers for VDI and Dell VMs, which are agents for backups and SQL, Oracle, and Mongo DB databases. We mostly use DL360, DL318, DL16, DL518, and other models for combustible systems from HPE.
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Nikos Ellinas
IT Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Previously, I was working as an IT contractor for several companies, so the model depended on the size of the business. They were using the smaller, cheaper series of HP ProLiant servers. My current company is relatively large, so they use rack-mounted DL servers that are designed for bigger companies.
HP servers are deployed physically in your office, and you need to maintain them. You are responsible for keeping them online and servicing the end-users at all times. We have about 1,000 users. It's a hybrid environment. We have the same services on the cloud and on-premises, so they are redundant and faster.
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Shahid Elahi
ICT Coordinator - Pakistan at Chiesi
Our primary use case is as our domain controller and file services, our local CR applications, and our ERP, local ERP. The main service we're using is the local ERP with Oracle DB.
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Amar Pratap
Sr. Network Admin at Millennium Automation and Systems
We do work for defense and government clients.
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Steven Walsh
Technical Manager at Hi-Impact Consultancy
I am a technical manager and have technicians who go out to schools and look at their network. We have two servers that are linked to a SAN and run virtual servers to form a cluster. This is done so that the servers will always stay on even if one of them goes off.
View full review »We use the servers to run our student information system. It's an accounting package within the bursary of the university.
We are currently on generation 8 or 9. The solution is hardware, so it's deployed on-prem.
Apart from users, there are five people that interact with the hardware directly. There are others who interact with the services that run from these servers. It's a school environment, so there are about 30,000 or more students and staff.
Previously, when we were using Zimbra for email services, it was run locally. We have stopped using that because we subscribe to Microsoft Office 360 email services, which run from the cloud. That has been taken off the servers.
Now that other applications are being developed, we hope to eventually be able to cater for the different administrative and academic departments in the university. We are hoping that some of this hardware will definitely have to be replaced. Of course, that will depend on the budget and the availability of funds that the university management is willing to make available. But it's going to be a step-by-step thing. There has to be planning and then budgetary provisions to be able to take care of these items.
We are just customers. We don't have a direct link with HPE, but through the HPE product suppliers. We have a new direct now, and in one of the meetings we had, he came up with the idea of finding a way to having that direct contact with HPE or Synergy and how perhaps we could patronize each other in terms of the servers, in terms of PCs for staff and students, and the kind of technical support that we can equally enjoy from HPE.
View full review »Our primary use case of HPE ProLiant DL Servers is virtualization. We also host three servers on it: our active directory, file server, and web server.
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BayramGuldibi
Technical Systems Support Manager at a hospitality company with 201-500 employees
At present, we are using Gen 7, 8. We have used Gen 10 for some of our customers.
We use the solution for providing hotel support. We're into the hotels of mostly Windows operating system, Oracle and SQL database.
We are using it for serving the VMware environment and creating all of our virtual servers and desktops.
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Sultan Ryspekov
IT Engineer at KBS LLP
We have several HPE ProLiant DL Server models in use, DL360, 380, and 580.
We use the servers for multiple business services.
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Clive Chirowodza
Business application analyst at CFI
We use ProLiant servers to host our solution. We have around 150 users.
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Gabriele Marini
IT Consultant at SPE
We use the solution as a second node backup.
View full review »The ProLiant server is where we install our monitoring tools. We are only utilizing about half of its total capacity. We need to install more memory and other hardware to maximize our usage. We're close to the minimum. We have around 20 users for this project across two departments.
View full review »We use the server as our hyperconversion infrastructure. When I have an HPE server and network like Aruba, we can manage all the infrastructures as software defined by the OneView dashboard to simplify day-to-day tasks. 360 and 380 are used in small to medium-size businesses. Power Server uses a high processing environment that has heavy workloads. We are partners with HPE and I'm an IT infrastructure engineer.
View full review »We use HPE ProLiant DL Servers as part of our management solution and for some specific applications.
View full review »We use VMware for the authorization and 3D rendering for AutoCAD for architecture projects. We run several databases on websites and so on - so normal activity.
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Madhura Direckze
Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Our customers are having additional VMware environments which we are converting into one because of the backup advantage. We can do the complete backup of VM within approximately eight to ten seconds.
View full review »We are system integrators in a fiber optics company. We use this solution mainly as high computational devices, but also we use it as a storage device.
The deployment is data center-based.
View full review »We primarily use the product for normal server purposes, for the running of Windows 2016 or 2019. We also use it for custom network monitoring applications, so we may monitor some of our infrastructure. I would not consider the product to be very specific, as the application is dependent on the HP server. We can post it on any server.
View full review »We use it for all of our needs. We use it for our servers, appliances, and virtualization. We have Gen8 and Gen10 models.
View full review »We primarily use it for our own servers. Basically, we use it for anything we need to have it for, including our servers, our appliances, and virtualization.
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RamaswamyK
M. I. S. Manager at Ruby Mills Ltd
We use it for the 12 VMs we have on it. We are using VMware.
View full review »It is mainly an x86 Intel server. There are some versions of AMD processors as well. You can use it for many purposes. You can use it as a web server, a backup server, a database server, or an application server. You can use it for any main purpose for which you need a server.
It is mainly on-premises, but you can also deploy it in a cloud.
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Joel Masocha
IT Manager at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
We have installed VMware on DL Server, and the operating system sits on this DL Server host.
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Ossama Helmy
Telecommunication Department Head at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our primary use for this product is our electronic faxing system. We have a number of applications that are hosted on it, working together.
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Ossama Helmy
Telecommunication Department Head at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The main use for the last order was for the applications and other items around an electronic fencing system.
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Jerry Canaan
Technical Support Engineer at Netsoft Consulting Services (P) Ltd
Our primary use case is focused on harmonizing databases. The method of deployment depends on our clients and their needs.
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Erwin Algas
IT Manager at Epson Precision (Philippines), Inc.
We have a three-tier infrastructure and our primary use case for this product is virtualization.
View full review »We are using HPE ProLiant DL Servers for virtualized workloads.
View full review »We are using HPE ProLiant DL Servers for all the databases and services in the bank I work at. We use HPE ProLiant DL Servers for service and for core banking and other computing systems, we use the HPE BladeSystems.
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FranciscoMedina
Account Manager at Sinergit
The most common use cases for HPE ProLiant DL Servers are application servers, web servers, and screen servers.
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Mac Wang
Project Manager at Realnux
The solution is primarily used for computing and to do database allocations
View full review »We use it for virtualization. We are using its latest version.
View full review »The product can be used as a host.
View full review »We still use this solution, but we're actually using an older version. Within our organization, there are roughly 10 users, using this solution.
Although we are happy with HPE ProLiant DL Servers, we are looking to replace them shortly.
View full review »We use this solution for everything. We use it for payment solutions and for the switch.
It is currently deployed on-premises, but we are moving to a private cloud because our requirements have really grown over the years.
View full review »We are using these servers as cluster nodes. We are running VM with Hyper-V.
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Rajiv John
Director at MICROLOGIC NETWORKS PRIVATE LIMITED
We are a solution provider and the ProLiant DL Servers are one of the products that we implement for our customers. They are primarily used as domain controllers and file servers. One of our customers also uses them for Nutanix.
View full review »One of our customers wants some on-premises rack servers and AD servers. I suggested buying an HPE server and doing virtualization on that. We are considering HPE ProLiant Gen9 Servers.
View full review »We use HPE Proliant DL Servers as rack servers.
View full review »My primary use of this solution is for mathematical models that we develop and buy. The mathematical models are being bought from companies like Siemens, General Electric, SMS, and DMAC Group. Primarily these companies give us this software, we buy it from them, they make mathematical models for steel plants and we also make our own models.
I also have around 40 portals that I'm running on that I had developed and maintained. I use the DL servers to host the databases and the portal.
View full review »I used it for building an application, database middleware servers. It performed very well for my needs.
View full review »Virtualized servers, failover production and dev/test environments of Linux and Windows guests.
View full review »I am using it to virtualize VMware. It is performing well.
View full review »There are two sets of servers that we use. We have several sites where we have VMware clusters using the servers, and also we have standalone servers that we use for physical security applications.
They are both performing very well.
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Baca Sulaiman Vaithiyan Abdulrazac
Marketing Specialist
ML380 ProLiant servers are really excellent servers on the ISMP side. Their performance is very highly satisfying, and it is a good product from HPE.
View full review »Our software is working on it, so it's very useful for our company. I'm not using it myself, but we are responsible for selling it together with our software.
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Sreten Stijepovic
Owner at INTUIS COMPUTERS
My client is using HPE ProLiant DL Servers for virtualizing hyper-vision functions and sometimes needs to extend the servers for business applications. We are not dealing with financial applications, and in most cases, it is used for virtualization. I have extensive experience in this and have been searching for a solution for a long time without any issues.
We use this solution to store documents.
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HPE ProLiant DL Servers
June 2025

Learn what your peers think about HPE ProLiant DL Servers. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: June 2025.
859,957 professionals have used our research since 2012.