HPE Apollo Systems vs HPE Moonshot comparison

HPE Apollo Systems and HPE Moonshot are both solutions in the Density Optimized Servers category. HPE Apollo Systems is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.0, while HPE Moonshot is ranked #4. HPE Apollo Systems holds a 18.6% mindshare in DOS, compared to HPE Moonshot’s 14.3% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of HPE Apollo Systems users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of HPE Moonshot users who would recommend it.

HPE Apollo Systems

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

HPE Apollo Systems and HPE Moonshot are competitors in the high-performance computing and application-specific workloads categories. HPE Apollo has an advantage in scalability and flexibility, while HPE Moonshot benefits from energy efficiency and specialized application performance.

Features: HPE Apollo offers superior scalability, flexibility, and high-performance computing capabilities. HPE Moonshot is noted for its energy efficiency, suitability for virtual desktop infrastructure, and telecommunications applications.

Room for Improvement: HPE Apollo could improve its management tools, integration processes, and customer support. HPE Moonshot needs better documentation, broader application support, and more user-friendly interfaces.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HPE Apollo tends to be easier to deploy due to its modular design, but it requires better customer support. HPE Moonshot requires specialized knowledge for deployment and offers strong technical support to users.

Pricing and ROI: HPE Apollo has competitive setup costs and a strong ROI, driven by efficiency and scalability. HPE Moonshot, although having higher initial costs, provides long-term savings through energy efficiency and performance benefits for specific applications.

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Categories and Ranking

HPE Apollo Systems

Ranking in Rack Servers

8th

Ranking in Density Optimized Servers

2nd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

HPE Moonshot

Ranking in Rack Servers

13th

Ranking in Density Optimized Servers

4th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Density Optimized Servers category, the mindshare of HPE Apollo Systems is 18.6%, down from 23.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Moonshot is 14.3%, down from 16.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Density Optimized Servers Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
HPE Apollo Systems	18.6%
HPE Moonshot	14.3%
Other	67.1%

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Gökhan DURMAZ

Account Manager at TD SYNNEX

High-quality integration and strong support have optimized our rack server operations

HPE Apollo Systems is a good product because it has better support and best quality with integrity. When I speak about integrity, I speak about GPU integration or other integrations such as GPU integration, backup software integration, and hypervisor integration. Regarding the integration of high-speed interconnectors in HPE Apollo Systems, they impact computational tasks because the high-speed interconnect affects performance. I don't remember the specifics. Regarding the cooling technologies, they help to reduce operational costs. The positive impact I see from HPE Apollo Systems is that support is good and quality is good. In general, HPE Apollo Systems appears to be for rack servers with some optimization capabilities.

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it_user6186

Independent Analyst and Advisory Consultant at Server StorageIO - www.storageio.com

HP Moonshot 1500 software defined capable compute servers

Riding the current software defined data center (SDDC) wave being led by the likes of VMware and software defined networking (SDN) also championed by VMware via their acquisition of Nicira last year, Software Defined Marketing (SDM) is in full force, along with Software Defined Data Infrastructures…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

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

"Stability has been extremely good."

"The technical support from HPE has always been good in my experience."

"With HPE Apollo, we can propose configurations with many hard drives, making it suitable for large storage needs."

"Apollo Systems provide stuff that standard services do not, more HTDs, more compute power, at very reasonable pricing."

"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."

"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, and it's been a pretty good product so far."

"I find HPE Apollo Systems to be scalable and efficient for AI initiatives, and the environmental efficiency has a significant impact on operational costs."

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"Scalability is great, and that was one of the key bits, as it has the scalability option in which you can fit four on each blade and have the capacity to keep on going."

Cons

"HPE Apollo's after-sales support and technical support should be improved."

"Connectivity to the outside of the server needs to be improved at the same time the network is improving."

"If there could be some training for our team, we would be better equipped to promote and support HPE Apollo."

"We have tried to used standardization using Ubuntu Linux and it's been hard. They had some difficulties getting the RAID configuration up and running because there are no drivers for it. It's not supported by HPE."

"The technical support from HPE has always been good in my experience."

"There is a shared battery for all cache controllers in the node. When you have to replace that element, you have to take down all three nodes and not just one."

"The licensing could be greatly improved, I think."

"OpenView is a new product which does not support older versions of the hardware."

More HPE Apollo Systems cons

"I think there's room for improvement. It doesn't work properly yet."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Obviously I would like to see the cost go down. That speaks for itself."

"There is an annual license required to use HPE Apollo."

"Compared to other products, HPE Apollo is not an expensive solution."

"The price of the solution is more expensive than Dell which is their main competitor. However, there are times we have managed to receive a comparable price."

"It is an expensive solution but it is worth the money. The standard licensing cost is for the GPU and the features that someone is using. There are additional charges but they depend on the solution."

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

15%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

University

Financial Services Firm

40%

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Company Size

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Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	13

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with HPE Apollo?

Some features could be added to HPE Apollo Systems in the future, and I feel that some capability is needed. HPE Apollo Systems is a bit expensive, and there are some issues with scalability. Two f...

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What is your primary use case for HPE Apollo?

I have been distributing this product for three years. I don't have specific use cases, and everything about the major use case for HPE Apollo Systems is good. I don't know the purpose clients are ...

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What advice do you have for others considering HPE Apollo?

I am not using these products today, and I do not work with some specific firewalls. My company is TD Synnex, a distributor company, and I work for this company. My email is , and my first name is ...

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Also Known As

HP Apollo Systems, HP ProLiant SL, HP Apollo

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Overview

The HPE Apollo high-density server family is built for the highest levels of performance and efficiency. They are rack-scale compute, storage, networking, power and cooling – massively scale-up and scale-out – solutions for your big data analytics, object storage and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. From water-cooling that’s 1,000X more efficient than air, to “right-sized scaling” with 2X the compute density for workgroup and private cloud workloads, the HPE Apollo line is a dense, high-performance, tiered approach for organisations of all sizes.

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HPE Moonshot is an integrated server system with workload-optimized solutions for better business outcomes delivered in a compact, power and energy efficient package.

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Sample Customers

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