HPE Apollo's initial setup is normal.

Implementation was not a big issue because we are already using some other storage vendors. It's just a matter of providing proper training. Our team is quite capable and has years of experience dealing with higher-capacity storage.

Overall, it was easy to implement. We have the tools from HPE configurators, which helps in the setup process. I would rate my experience with the initial setup an eight out of ten, where one being difficult and ten being easy to set up.

The Apollo was very straightforward. That was nice and easy. Some of my other products, my 3PARs and so on, a lot more complex. But the Apollo, that was nice and straight, easy.

It was the first Omni-Path installation in the world, so people were very careful. With that caveat, I think it was straightforward.

The initial setup was straightforward, and we've been happy about it.

The PSC installed everything, i.e., both hardware and software. So we didn't do any of that; from our perspective, it has been easy to use.

The initial setup was pretty straightforward. The Apollo series that we use is basically the guts of a ProLiant DL380, which we've used many, many times in the past, but then allows us to put double the disk capacity of a traditional DL380 in that line of Apollo servers. And so setting it up was pretty easy because we've done Apollo servers in the past. The iLO functionality made it pretty straightforward and had no problems getting things deployed.

It was really straightforward. The process for installing and commissioning the services was easy.

The initial setup was fairly straightforward. What we're trying to do with the solution added to the complexity; so we needed some guidance, mainly on how to configure the way the drives and everything were allocated to enable us to actually do the captures. From that initial build to where we are now, it's taken a little while to get there; but it is a fairly complex system.

The initial setup was straightforward. The solution is well documented in a data sheet.

It was straightforward.

The initial setup was business as usual. It's not so complicated, but of course it takes time.

The initial setup was simple for us. HP came in, they racked and stacked it, and the software guys came in. This took a day or two and they were all done with the image. The whole process including hardware and software stack took about two weeks.

It was straightforward.

We always have an HPE engineer on our site, close to us. But usually, we prefer to do this kind of setup, at least the first time, to put our hands on the device itself, by ourselves. So the setup was done 95% without the support of this engineer. And maybe 5% for optimization with the support of this guy.

Standard server technology. Some initial issues with flashing FW, but the rest was straightforward.