We performed a comparison between Cisco Nexus 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 most valuable feature of this solution is its speed."
"The scalability of Cisco Nexus is good. We've had them for the entire lifetime. We've never had to upgrade them yet."
"Its low latency is most valuable. Its performance is good, and it is also very stable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is network visibility. It becomes the core switch. All of the devices connected route towards it."
"Cisco Nexus has good overall reliability and configuration options. It is fairly straightforward to access the switching platforms."
"Cisco Nexus and Cisco Catalyst have processing power and offer good utilization of Cisco devices."
"We have a much more stable network now using the Cisco Nexus."
"A very solid and reliable solution."
"HPE ProCurve's most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly."
"The GUI makes it easy to configure, manage, and work with."
"HPE ProCurve is used to connect servers and storage in the data center."
"HPE ProCurve offers a very good value proposition compared to that of other switches and is very energy-efficient."
"The web page interface is very convenient and easy to use for setting up your feedback loops."
"In my experience, the scalability has been good."
"It has a lifetime warranty, that includes lifetime updates."
"The solution is fast and inexpensive."
"There is limited guidance in terms of the use and configuration of Cisco Nexus for specific use cases. The documentation is not comprehensive, and you have to do a lot of online research."
"With some of the products we had before, we had a little more downtime than we would like."
"Standardization across iOS and Nexus operating systems would be an improvement."
"Don't discard Cisco Nexus because of the price."
"The initial setup is always complex."
"There is some room for improvement when it comes to the frequency on the network."
"Nexus is a costly solution."
"I would like to see Duo directly integrated with the Nexus hardware, instead of it being through the proxies, like how Duo works today."
"I don't have any recommendations for areas of improvement."
"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."
"There should be faster interfaces on the switch, such as 25 gigabits."
"The solution doesn't have web-based management, which is why we've moved to a different solution."
"The solution's pricing could be made cheaper."
"Procurve would work better if it had more options like the web environment."
"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."
"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."
Cisco Nexus is ranked 6th in LAN Switching with 101 reviews while HPE ProCurve is ranked 2nd in LAN Switching with 37 reviews. Cisco Nexus is rated 8.4, while HPE ProCurve is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Nexus writes " Offer high performance capabilities and enables efficient data transmission and processing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE ProCurve writes "Offers reliability and helps with vulnerability assessment". Cisco Nexus is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Juniper QFX Series Switches, Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches and Dell PowerSwitch N-Series, whereas HPE ProCurve is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Aruba Instant On Switches, Dell PowerConnect Switches, NETGEAR Switches and Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches. See our Cisco Nexus vs. HPE ProCurve report.
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