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."Its easy management is most valuable. It is easy to use, easy to manage, stable, and very reliable."
"We used older versions of Cisco Cloud. The reason why we switched was just adapting with the times."
"Nexus has improved my organization in the way that it provided enhanced security in a point in the network that was critical."
"It has improved our organization because we have aggregated ports, we're able to put multiple agencies on the multiple different interfaces that we have going there. We're able to separate them out with the use of VLANs and whatnot."
"They are very high-performance switches and they are made for lossless data, so they're a good play in the customer environment."
"Cisco Nexus has good overall reliability and configuration options. It is fairly straightforward to access the switching platforms."
"The most valuable feature is the automation that we can do with it."
"The setup is straightforward. I'd like to see the firmware and code upgradability to be slightly more intuitive."
"HPE ProCurve is very complex for junior engineers and beginners. You need a lot of experience in managing switches in order to use this switch."
"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 stable, and it fulfills our needs. We have all the functions we need, so we're totally satisfied."
"HPE ProCurve has plenty of features."
"Inter-VLAN is a great feature."
"The most valuable features of HPE ProCurve are the reports, lifetime warranty, and CLI."
"The network management solutions that they have is great."
"The GUI makes it easy to configure, manage, and work with."
"The only thing to improve is to continue to get better."
"Nothing is perfect."
"The initial setup wasn't simple or user-friendly."
"My only complaint is that not all of the ports on it are enabled from the start."
"There are too many different model numbers and too much complexity."
"Currently, the switches don't behave like the 4500 switches in terms of acting as one physical chassis. So the multi-chassis PortChannel feature is not applicable in this case. Nevertheless, virtual port-channel feature covers this."
"In the Nexus 3500, you can't do per-port Jumbo frames, so you have to enable it as a global configuration."
"Some of the DHCP features need improvement."
"Since we transfer from one gigabit to ten gigabits of information, in a future release, it would benefit to have more high-speed ports."
"If we're aiming for an improvement, focus on enhancing security features in HPE ProCurve, particularly in terms of filtering."
"Procurve would work better if it had more options like the web environment."
"HPE ProCurve's web interface is old, and I have to log in on each device separately, making them the product's shortcomings that need improvement."
"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 product must provide something similar to Cisco’s command-line interface."
"Our customers are focused on features and generally, they would like to have a more feature-rich solution."
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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