My customers' usual use cases for HPE ProLiant DL Servers range from development, web hosting, to mail hosting, and HPC platforms, with many use cases. Many customers have done virtualization using VMware, Microsoft, or Nutanix platforms with their HPE ProLiant DL Servers. HPE ProLiant DL Servers can take up to 4 TB memory and can go up to 32 drives when it comes to scalability, plus they can take up to 16 ports of Ethernet or fiber combination. HPE ProLiant DL Servers facilitate AI-driven projects for my customers, and some of the models are specifically built for AI.
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.
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.
Senior Manager - SBR Technical Services at Reliance Industries Ltd
Real User
Feb 1, 2023
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.
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.
IT Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Real User
May 29, 2022
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.
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.
Information Technology Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Feb 4, 2022
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.
System Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Jan 31, 2022
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.
Technical Systems Support Manager at a hospitality company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Nov 7, 2021
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.
Owner & General Manager at a media company with 1-10 employees
Real User
Jul 13, 2021
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.
Software Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
Real User
Apr 1, 2021
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.
Product Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Reseller
Feb 4, 2021
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.
Deputy General Manager Information Technology at a media company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Dec 14, 2020
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.
Executive Director at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Real User
Nov 27, 2020
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.
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.
Senior Support Executive at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Sep 16, 2020
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.
General Manager / Head – Central Automation at Essar
Real User
Feb 4, 2019
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.
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My customers' usual use cases for HPE ProLiant DL Servers range from development, web hosting, to mail hosting, and HPC platforms, with many use cases. Many customers have done virtualization using VMware, Microsoft, or Nutanix platforms with their HPE ProLiant DL Servers. HPE ProLiant DL Servers can take up to 4 TB memory and can go up to 32 drives when it comes to scalability, plus they can take up to 16 ports of Ethernet or fiber combination. HPE ProLiant DL Servers facilitate AI-driven projects for my customers, and some of the models are specifically built for AI.
We use it for backup and disaster recovery.
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.
The solution is used for storage.
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.
We use ProLiant servers to host our solution. We have around 150 users.
We have one SQL server, one repository called Solidworks Designs, and one called Karmatic.
We primarily use the solution as a server. We use it for hosting Oracle databases.
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.
We have multiple use cases for HPE ProLiant DL Servers, such as setting up VDS software.
We primarily use the solution in our company and our client's company.
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.
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.
We do work for defense and government clients.
We have a three-tier infrastructure and our primary use case for this product is virtualization.
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.
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.
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.
The most common use cases for HPE ProLiant DL Servers are application servers, web servers, and screen servers.
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.
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.
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.
We use it for the 12 VMs we have on it. We are using VMware.
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.
We use it for virtualization. We are using its latest version.
We have installed VMware on DL Server, and the operating system sits on this DL Server host.
The product can be used as a host.
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.
Our primary use for this product is our electronic faxing system. We have a number of applications that are hosted on it, working together.
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.
The main use for the last order was for the applications and other items around an electronic fencing system.
We are using these servers as cluster nodes. We are running VM with Hyper-V.
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.
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.
We use HPE Proliant DL Servers as rack servers.
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.
I used it for building an application, database middleware servers. It performed very well for my needs.
Virtualized servers, failover production and dev/test environments of Linux and Windows guests.