HPE ProLiant servers India. DL360, DL380, Apollo, Synergy. Quoted in four hours.
From a single DL360 for a branch office to a 42U Apollo rack for core banking. Sized, quoted, delivered, racked, and supported under ProActive Care. Bengaluru-headquartered. Multi-city installs across India.
Serving 200+ Indian businesses · HPE ProLiant + Aruba + Dell PowerEdge + Lenovo ThinkSystem · Microsoft Partner · Bitdefender Partner · Apple Authorized Reseller.
The number that matters
HPE iLO 6 with ProActive Care delivers five-nines availability on a properly configured DL380 cluster. That works out to roughly five minutes of unplanned downtime per year. For a core banking switch or a hospital HIS, that is the difference between a non-event and a regulatory letter.
What ProLiant actually means for your data centre
ProLiant is the workhorse line of HPE. Four families. Each one engineered for a different physical and workload reality.
The DL series is rackmount. One or two rack-units. Most enterprise Linux, Windows, VMware, and SAP HANA boxes in India sit here. The ML series is tower form. Quieter. Sits in a branch cupboard. The Apollo line is storage-dense. Built for petabyte object stores and HPC. Synergy is composable. One frame. Pools of compute, storage, fabric. Reshape via software.
Below is the line-up. India retail starting figures are illustrative. Exact quote in four hours after we read your workload.
ProLiant DL360 Gen11
Dual 4th/5th-gen Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC. Compact 1U. Virtualisation host, app server, domain controller.
From ~₹3.5 Lakh · base config, exact varies by CPU/RAM/disk
ProLiant DL380 Gen11
The most-deployed enterprise server in India. SAP HANA, Oracle, VMware clusters, SQL OLTP. Up to 8 TB DDR5.
From ~₹5 Lakh · common config lands ₹7-12 Lakh
ProLiant DL385 Gen11
EPYC core-count and memory bandwidth advantage. VDI hosts, container clusters, analytics workloads.
From ~₹5.5 Lakh · price-performance leader at higher core counts
ProLiant ML30 / ML110 Gen11
Tower form for a branch office, hospital ward, factory floor. Quiet. Plug into a normal power point. File, print, AD, Tally.
From ~₹1.5 Lakh (ML30) · ML110 from ₹2.5 Lakh
ProLiant Apollo 4200 / 4510
Up to 1 PB raw in a single chassis. Object store, video surveillance archive, backup target, Splunk indexer.
From ~₹15 Lakh · capacity-tiered
HPE Synergy 12000
One frame. Compute modules, storage modules, fabric. Re-compose via OneView API. For private cloud at scale.
From ~₹40 Lakh · replaces a rack of point gear
ProLiant vs Dell PowerEdge vs Lenovo ThinkSystem vs Cisco UCS
Honest take. We sell all four. We will not push HPE if your stack reads Dell or your fabric reads Cisco.
| Dimension | HPE ProLiant | Dell EMC PowerEdge | Lenovo ThinkSystem | Cisco UCS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best fit | General enterprise. SAP HANA. iLO is the mature out-of-band tool. | Strong virtualisation, VxRail HCI, deep partnership with VMware. | Value tier. Strong Intel partnership. Aggressive India street pricing. | Converged infrastructure. Already a Cisco fabric customer. |
| Management | iLO 6 + OneView. Best-in-class out-of-band. | iDRAC + OpenManage. Mature. | XClarity. Improving. | UCS Manager. Designed for fabric-first ops. |
| India support | ProActive Care. NBD, 8hr, 24/7 8hr tiers. Wide spares depot footprint. | ProSupport. Equivalent SLA tiers. Strong direct presence. | Premier Support. Improved but thinner spares network. | Smart Net. Excellent but priced at premium. |
| Indicative DL380-class price | From ~₹5 Lakh | R750/R760 from ~₹5 Lakh | SR650 V3 from ~₹4.5 Lakh | UCS C240 M7 from ~₹7 Lakh |
| Where we steer customers | Default for SAP HANA, VMware enterprise, hospital HIS. | Default if existing VxRail or Dell storage stack. | Default when budget is the constraint. | Default when network and compute must share one policy plane. |
iLO 6, ProActive Care, and what India support actually delivers
A server is the support contract. The metal is the same across vendors. The difference is what happens at 2 a.m. on a Sunday when a memory DIMM fails.
HPE iLO 6 is the out-of-band management chip on every ProLiant. It runs even when the OS is dead. You can power-cycle, mount an ISO, view the console, pull telemetry. Sirius engineers use iLO to triage before a site visit.
ProActive Care is the service layer above. Three SLA tiers. Next Business Day. 8-hour onsite. 24×7 8-hour. The last tier is what BFSI and hospitals buy. HPE keeps spares in regional depots. Sirius adds a local engineer for racking, firmware, and BIOS workflows.
For a typical DL380 cluster on 24×7 8-hour, the all-in support figure runs roughly ₹45,000 to ₹90,000 per server per year. Lower than the cost of one prolonged outage.
How a ProLiant procurement runs end-to-end
Sizing call. Thirty minutes.
Workload, expected IOPS, RAM headroom, virtualisation density, growth horizon. We run the HPE Server Sizer and benchmark against Dell and Lenovo equivalents.
BOQ within four hours.
Line-item Bill of Quantity. Model, CPU SKU, RAM, disk, RAID controller, NIC, iLO Advanced, ProActive Care tier, rack mount kit. Two alternatives where it makes sense.
Purchase order. GST invoice.
Standard payment terms. ITC-eligible invoice. No marketplace ambiguity. Direct from authorized distributor channel.
Delivery to your DC or site.
Metro: 5-10 business days for in-stock SKUs. Tier-2 and tier-3 cities: 10-15. Configure-to-order SKUs: 4-8 weeks from HPE factory.
Rack, firmware, install.
Sirius engineer onsite. Rack mount, cabling, firmware baseline, BIOS settings, iLO setup, OS install or ESXi build, handover doc.
Where ProLiant earns its place in Indian industry
Core banking, treasury, AML
DL380 clusters under VMware. Oracle Exadata-adjacent OLTP. RBI Cyber Security Framework audit trails on iLO logs. 24×7 8-hour SLA mandatory.
SAP S/4HANA, MES, PLM
DL380 or DL385 as HANA appliance. Apollo as object store for shop-floor telemetry. Synergy where private-cloud composability matters.
HIS, PACS, EMR
DL360 for HIS app tier. Apollo 4510 for PACS image archive at petabyte scale. NABH-aligned uptime targets.
Edge nodes, BNG, OSS/BSS
DL360 and DL325 at PoPs. EPYC core density for control-plane workloads. Synergy in central NOC.
e-Gov, NIC-empanelled rollouts
DL380 on GeM-compliant invoicing. Make-in-India local-content variants where the tender mandates.
AD, file, print, Tally, ERP
ML30 or ML110 tower in a server cupboard. Quiet, power-friendly, one engineer can manage twenty sites remotely via iLO.
HPE ProLiant servers India FAQ
What is the difference between DL360 and DL380?
Form factor and expansion. DL360 is 1U. Up to 8 small-form-factor drives, two CPUs, lower memory ceiling. DL380 is 2U. Up to 30+ drives, two CPUs, higher RAM, more PCIe slots. Most enterprise workloads land on DL380.
Should I buy DL380 or DL385?
DL380 runs Intel Xeon. DL385 runs AMD EPYC. Pick EPYC if your workload is core-count sensitive. Examples: VDI host packing many user sessions, container clusters, analytics. Pick Xeon if your ISV certifies only Intel. SAP HANA on Xeon is the safer book.
What is iLO Advanced and do I need it?
iLO Standard is free with the server. iLO Advanced unlocks virtual KVM over network, mount-from-URL ISO, scripted firmware deployment, integrated remote console. For any production server you manage remotely, buy iLO Advanced. Per-server cost runs roughly ₹15,000 to ₹25,000.
What ProActive Care tier should I buy?
Next Business Day for dev and test. 8-hour onsite for production line-of-business. 24×7 8-hour for core banking, hospital HIS, telco control plane, anything where downtime is a regulatory or revenue event.
How long does delivery take in India?
In-stock SKUs reach metros in 5-10 business days. Tier-2 and tier-3 cities add a few days. Configure-to-order from HPE factory runs 4-8 weeks. We will tell you which category your BOQ falls under before you raise the PO.
Can you deliver outside India?
Sirius Star is an India-incorporated partner. Our delivery, installation, and support contracts cover India. For cross-border requirements we coordinate with HPE in-country partners but the invoice and SLA originate locally.
Do you sell refurbished ProLiant?
No. We sell new HPE ProLiant through authorized distribution. New warranty, new ProActive Care eligibility, new firmware baseline. For audit trails and resale value, new is what BFSI, healthcare, and listed companies need.
Why Sirius Star for HPE ProLiant in India
Twenty-plus years in IT infrastructure. Bengaluru headquartered. Authorized partner network across HPE, Dell, Lenovo, Microsoft, Bitdefender, Apple. We sell what fits, not what we want to push.
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Send us your workload. We will send you a BOQ in four hours.
DL360, DL380, Apollo, Synergy. Sized for your application, priced for your budget, supported with HPE ProActive Care plus Sirius engineers across India.
P.S. An Indian manufacturing CIO needed 6 nodes for a private cloud. Dell quoted 9 weeks. HPE shipped from Indian stock in 14 days. He says he’ll never run a procurement without checking both.