We performed a comparison between Cisco Catalyst Switches and HPE ProCurve based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Cisco Catalyst Switches wins out in this comparison. The solution offers great durability, reliability, and scalability. Cisco Catalyst Switches are feature rich due to Cisco’s brand exposure in the marketplace and can be easier to manage and maintain due to the amount of certified professional users available in the marketplace today. Cisco is a technology that many organizations know to be extremely stable and robust and the Catalyst Switches are another great value-added product that organizations know they can trust.
"These switches are flexible and user-friendly."
"All features are very strong. It is very easy to manage. It is also certified and popular. Cisco has come up with a new management console to manage the switches. I still haven't tried it, but in my opinion, this is the best way forward. You can use software to manage the switches instead of the common line configuration. You can manage it through software, which is very easy."
"The new series has lots of great features, it's really lovely. From a management perspective, or a policy creation perspective, which we are seeing in the Catalyst 9000 series it is great."
"The product is convenient to deploy."
"The operating system is great."
"It works well."
"The solution is stable."
"It is very reliable."
"The most valuable features are the price and the warranty."
"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."
"It is easy to deploy."
"The pricing is quite competitive."
"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 most valuable feature of HPE ProCurve is its ease of use and implementation."
"The product is robust."
"HPE ProCurve is used to connect servers and storage in the data center."
"Installing and configuring these switches requires the proper training."
"They should be cheaper."
"Reducing the price would be an improvement."
"Any improvements that they make should be in the wireless area of the product."
"Cisco should provide customers with a more advantageous licensing model included with the purchase of the equipment."
"We have configurations for port channels between two facilities, and we cannot communicate between these two buildings. An SFP configuration uses one wire to send and receive the signal. It's opt-in. We cannot use it after the upgrade. What can we do in this situation? We already bought it."
"The only improvement I would like to see with Cisco Catalyst Switches is the pricing."
"Out of the competition, Cisco switches are easily the most expensive."
"The solution's pricing could be made cheaper."
"The CLI is a bit confusing. It is not the easiest to manage, especially if you come from a Cisco environment."
"It might be best if it offers better scalability."
"The user interface (UI) could be better."
"A few areas included in the network performance managers can be integrated into the solution's dashboard since it is the only area with a few concerns."
"I would like to see some kind of packet tracer where people can study how the switch is operating."
"We do occasionally have issues with the solution and need to change out the switches sometimes. This can be due to the fan, but, in most cases, it's because the power supply was broken."
"The solution doesn't have web-based management, which is why we've moved to a different solution."
Cisco Catalyst Switches is ranked 1st in LAN Switching with 171 reviews while HPE ProCurve is ranked 2nd in LAN Switching with 37 reviews. Cisco Catalyst Switches is rated 8.6, while HPE ProCurve is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Catalyst Switches writes "Reliable and stable catalyst switch; can be easily installed". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE ProCurve writes "Offers reliability and helps with vulnerability assessment". Cisco Catalyst Switches is most compared with Arista Networks Platform, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus, ExtremeSwitching and Aruba Instant On Switches, whereas HPE ProCurve is most compared with Aruba Instant On Switches, NETGEAR Switches, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus and Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches. See our Cisco Catalyst Switches vs. HPE ProCurve report.
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