HPE Apollo Valuable Features

Aruna Udawatte - PeerSpot reviewer
Director -Digital Transformation at Convergence Lanka

HPE Apollo's pricing is low, and implementation is very easy compared to other products.

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Gayan Senadheera - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Tyax Pvt Ltd

The higher capacities stand out. HPE Apollo allows for high capacities compared to other solutions like the DM3000 series, which may have certain capacity limitations.

With HPE Apollo, we can propose configurations with many hard drives, making it suitable for large storage needs. So for the largest capacity requirements, we usually propose Apollo.  Therefore, HPE Apollo offers higher capacities, making it suitable for storage-intensive applications.

The solution is indeed very easy to use and customizable. We haven't faced any issues when configuring and proposing it. Whenever it comes to HPE, everyone is quite convinced about the product's reliability. 

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Irfan Basharat - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution integration Architect (HPE, Dell, Vmware, AWS, Azure) at Computer Marketing Company Pvt Ltd

HPE Apollo's support is the most valuable feature. It supports more than one hundred twenty teraflops of precision computing and it supports a GPU in a single JSA. When it comes to GPU-to-GPU communication and NV Links it works well. Everything is related to artificial intelligence or deep learning. This is the best solution as of right now.

There are different types of servers, and there are different types of technology. HPE Apollo is good to go with the current requirement of any Telco sector, GPU-intensive workload, or deep learning environment.

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Ayush-Jain - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant at Inflow Technologies

HPE Apollo's most valuable feature is the ability to expand our storage capacity.

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it_user784059 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Manager at Maples And Calder

It's really very clever the way it manages to hide the disks away. This idea of pulling out the little trays, I just think that's really, really clever. 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. It's been a pretty good product so far.

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it_user680184 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director of Research at PSC

In referring to the Apollos, what we liked about them was:

  • A combination of the density
  • The flexibility to run dual CPU nodes or add GPUs to other nodes
  • Absolutely being able to mount into Omni-Path architecture, HFIs on those nodes, because we were the very first site in the world
  • Being able to connect those in large quantities
  • In Bridges, we have 800 Apollo 2000 nodes, and they have been running extremely well for us
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it_user368157 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Unix Performance Analyst at Amadeus IT Group

Apollo's most valuable features for us are its density and storage capabilities.

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it_user683202 - PeerSpot reviewer
Professor at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

It's very hard for a professor to amass the supercomputing resources, so I've been very fortunate to have that level of supercomputing at our disposal and that has really enabled us to do the world's leading superhuman AI research. That is what we did, we actually beat the best heads up in all Texas, holding human players in the world this January. So, we're at a superhuman level in the strategic reasoning.

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it_user332961 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of IT Infrastructure at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

We actually install Scality on the Apollo servers and so we have a ring, a Scality ring, where we store our customers' documents. That allowed us to migrate away from traditional NAS with a cost effective solution whose architecture is both scalable for the future and able to handle the PB scale of document content that we deal with.

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DM
Head of TV Engineering and Operations at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

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.

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it_user568107 - PeerSpot reviewer
Development Manager at Thomson Reuters

We're using the Apollo 4200 as a data capture system. The most important things for us are the amount of storage on there, the ability to configure it, and change the configuration so we could do the network captures we need at very high data rates. It meets our network requirement of being able to capture up to 40-gig with a small form factor.

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it_user784050 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at Mr Green

It is quite simple when you get it going. I like the blade concept that makes is so much easier to handle the servers.

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Amir Adel - PeerSpot reviewer
Junior Support Technician at Demo Computer

The most valuable feature is the amount of programming storage available.

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SG
Senior Account Manager

High compute density and high storage density at a reasonable cost

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it_user784038 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Architect

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. And 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.

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it_user364197 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at CSC Finland

We are running Apollo with SL-series servers and the best thing about them is the density of the storage area available. Regarding TCO, total cost of ownership, per terabyte, they are now the best on the market.

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it_user568143 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Industrial Automation & Modeling at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's a stable product; very reliable. It is a good basis upon which to build further. You see some evolution, but not too much. If you go to their events every year, you see an incremental evolution which is normal in that road.

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it_user363225 - PeerSpot reviewer
Research Support at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

For us, the most valuable features are the price and density. We have very limited space and we're able to fit four servers into our data center's rack space. Although I think a lot of the servers from different vendors are going to be very similar because they all use Intel chips, making them essentially the same, it's the HP management software that makes it better than the competition.

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it_user784011 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network End Data Center Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's a compact system. We usually use three blades for two-rack units, and with enough storage, it's really a small system with a powerful CPU, powerful hard drives, powerful disks. So it provides enough performance in terms storage value. And the internal network, we are also very happy with it. So, for the branches for us, it's perfect.

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it_user321114 - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Vice President with 501-1,000 employees

It gives us the density of a blade without the issue of shared IO, and a good price point for object storage.

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