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 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."
"Instant On Switches' best feature is the 1930, which is stackable."
"The best thing about Aruba Instant On Switches is their cost."
"Regarding the feature, my clients are currently favoring it because it enables them to switch back to phone functionality."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Setup is easy."
"It is easy for deployment and configuration."
"It is quite easy to maintain from the software point of view."
"It's easy to manage and configure. The configurations can be exported and imported to another solution."
"HPE ProCurve has plenty of features."
"Its easy manageability is most valuable. It's easy to manage."
"The product is robust."
"Inter-VLAN is a great feature."
"The solution is fast and inexpensive."
"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 is used to connect servers and storage in the data center."
"They could provide additional uplink ports, such as eight instead of four. It will be beneficial for our use case."
"The pricing is competitive but could be improved."
"The product must be integrated with Aruba Central for better management."
"The solution does not have any console access. For example, if you do not have internet access on your side and you need to configure anything, you should at least have CLI access to do something or manage the solution to put to some IP. It will only work if we have a TSCT on the network."
"The solution’s GUI should be improved a bit."
"The price has room for improvement."
"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."
"The support needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"If you make a change and you disconnect yourself from the switch, you will create an issue."
"The solution doesn't have web-based management, which is why we've moved to a different solution."
"HPE ProCurve could improve by making their command more similar to other solutions, such as the access codes. There should be a standard. Additionally, if the configurations could be done from the cloud would be a benefit and the port uplink speed should improve."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see integration with HPE OneView."
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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