We performed a comparison between Aruba Instant On Switches and HPE ProCurve based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two LAN Switching solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has a simple deployment and zero border."
"Its customer service is good."
"We use Aruba Instant On Switches for general communication, sending files, and going to the internet."
"It is easy for deployment and configuration."
"The best thing about Aruba Instant On Switches is their cost."
"The solution provides GUI control, making it particularly suitable for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and small office/home office (SOHO) networks."
"Aruba's management solutions, like Aruba Central are valuable."
"The tool's best part is the commercials. Its pricing is lower compared to other enterprise products. We pitch the product to customers who have budget constraints. Its implementation is plug-and-play."
"This is a very reliable solution."
"HPE ProCurve is used to connect servers and storage in the data center."
"It has an excellent menu system where you can use both the CLI and a menu system and the GUI version. They have three options for manipulating, updating, and changing the switch, which we like."
"HPE ProCurve has plenty of features."
"The most valuable feature of HPE ProCurve is its ease of use and implementation."
"One of the biggest things in HPE ProCurve that I like, though not necessarily a feature, is the HPE warranty because it's probably better than any of the other vendors that we deal with, as it has a lifetime replacement. Feature-wise, the web interface of HPE ProCurve is typically pretty good and I like that as well."
"The GUI makes it easy to configure, manage, and work with."
"The web page interface is very convenient and easy to use for setting up your feedback loops."
"They could provide additional uplink ports, such as eight instead of four. It will be beneficial for our use case."
"The price has room for improvement."
"Its scalability needs improvement."
"The pricing is competitive but could be improved."
"In general, mostly in Instant On series, if we could have much more control on the switches, at least. We'd like a CLI access so that, when we want to do some advanced configurations we could."
"You cannot use many VLANs, like VLAN 10, VLAN 20, VLAN 30, and VLAN 100 on Aruba Instant On AP."
"The product's startup speed is very bad, as it is very slow."
"It is not a very scalable solution."
"I don't have any recommendations for areas of improvement."
"I would like to see integration with HPE OneView."
"The solution's pricing could be made cheaper."
"One of the weakest points of this solution is its on-premise. We are not able to do all we need to with the CLI."
"If you make a change and you disconnect yourself from the switch, you will create an issue."
"The CLI is a bit confusing. It is not the easiest to manage, especially if you come from a Cisco environment."
"The solution should offer different gigabit interfaces. Right now, they have ten gigabits. However, for our needs, we only need one gigabit. We don't need 24 or 48 ports. We only need eight to ten. HPE should introduce into their portfolio some smaller and more compact options."
"The dashboards could be improved to be more interesting."
Aruba Instant On Switches is ranked 4th in LAN Switching with 21 reviews while HPE ProCurve is ranked 2nd in LAN Switching with 37 reviews. Aruba Instant On Switches is rated 8.4, while HPE ProCurve is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Aruba Instant On Switches writes "A very stable tool that needs to offer better startup speed". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE ProCurve writes "Offers reliability and helps with vulnerability assessment". Aruba Instant On Switches is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, NETGEAR Switches and Cisco Nexus, whereas HPE ProCurve is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, NETGEAR Switches, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus and Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches. See our Aruba Instant On Switches vs. HPE ProCurve report.
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