We performed a comparison between Cisco FabricPath 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 best features of Cisco FabricPath is performance and reliability."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to migrate VMs between data centers."
"The setup is straightforward."
"The tool makes it easy to manage multi-layer networking and increases network efficiency. I haven't faced any challenges in integrating it into our existing infrastructure."
"It's very stable."
"The technical assistance is good."
"It's a reliable product and you know that it will work in the enterprise environment."
"The solution has excellent stability."
"It is stable, and it fulfills our needs. We have all the functions we need, so we're totally satisfied."
"ProCurve is easy to configure and to know how to create each connection and configuration."
"Its easy manageability is most valuable. It's easy to manage."
"In my experience, the scalability has been good."
"It's easy to manage and configure. The configurations can be exported and imported to another solution."
"HPE ProCurve has plenty of features."
"The GUI makes it easy to configure, manage, and work with."
"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."
"The solution is complex to set up."
"Layer 3 does not have higher availability."
"I would like to see better interoperability with other IT solutions."
"Lack of security features for which we need to use another solution."
"The management features are in need of improvement."
"The price is a little bit too high."
"The pricing could be adjusted to make it easier to sell to clients."
"The documents could improve for Cisco FabricPath. There are times when the relevant information is not present in the different sections of the documents, such as deployment. The documents should be more detailed and enhanced."
"These switches can be made more stable and robust."
"The dashboards could be improved to be more interesting."
"It might be best if it offers better scalability."
"There is one proprietary function they lack, and I can't remember what it was called, but it monitors the ports, and then every 10 seconds if the port is down, it can divert the traffic somewhere else."
"The pricing model could be improved in HPE ProCurve."
"Procurve would work better if it had more options like the web environment."
"An area for improvement in HPE ProCurve is the web interface not being as robust because you still have to go to the COI to make modifications or look at the exact configuration."
"The product must provide something similar to Cisco’s command-line interface."
Cisco FabricPath is ranked 8th in LAN Switching with 22 reviews while HPE ProCurve is ranked 2nd in LAN Switching with 37 reviews. Cisco FabricPath is rated 8.2, while HPE ProCurve is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco FabricPath writes "Makes multi-layer networking easy and increases network efficiency". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE ProCurve writes "Offers reliability and helps with vulnerability assessment". Cisco FabricPath is most compared with Juniper QFabric, Cisco Nexus and Arista Campus LAN Switches, whereas HPE ProCurve is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Aruba Instant On Switches, NETGEAR Switches, Dell PowerConnect Switches and Cisco Nexus. See our Cisco FabricPath vs. HPE ProCurve report.
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