We performed a comparison between HPE ProCurve and Juniper QFabric 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."It's easy to manage and configure. The configurations can be exported and imported to another solution."
"This is a very reliable solution."
"The pricing is quite competitive."
"The user interface is simple to use."
"It is easy to deploy."
"The network management solutions that they have is great."
"It has a lifetime warranty, that includes lifetime updates."
"ProCurve is easy to configure and to know how to create each connection and configuration."
"It is known for being agile, flexible, and cost-effective when working with various vendors."
"It's user-friendly."
"The vendor maintains the product well."
"The solution is stable."
"QFabric supports redundancy and includes all of the enterprise and service provider features that customers would want in data center or service provider network."
"The 40 gig backbone InterConneX was valuable for our use case. It is even faster now. QFabric has spine-leaf technology or topology, which basically makes every single hop only one hop away in terms of connecting from one device to another. It is a pretty good and robust solution. It works pretty well in terms of scalability, and their technical support is amazing."
"The most valuable feature of QFabric for network performance is its stability."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the fabric backplane having upwards of 160 GB of communication. It is a top-of-the-rack solution where you have your directors sitting in the main area and then you have your nodes expanded out to your multiple cabinets. It has a very good design and could be your server backbone."
"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."
"The solution doesn't have web-based management, which is why we've moved to a different solution."
"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."
"It might be best if it offers better scalability."
"There should be faster interfaces on the switch, such as 25 gigabits."
"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."
"They should learn from other vendors, such as Cisco. They all have a few specific routing features. HPE doesn't have any cheap BGP solution."
"The pricing model could be improved in HPE ProCurve."
"The stability needs to be improved."
"I do not use GUI's very much for switch stacks. I am always in the CLI. However, I do know that Juniper in the past has lacked on their GUI's, but they have been working on it."
"They are working on the virtualization of the actual fabric layer. They are moving away from the original spine-leaf design to a different infrastructure. Instead of having three tiers, which was the director of the interconnected nodes, they cut them back, and they still have that kind of structure."
"The disruptive upgrade was an issue for us."
"It works too much on rebooting and there is some memory leakage."
"The pricing structure could be more budget-friendly."
"Having support for all OpenFlow versions would be beneficial."
"It would be nice if Juniper provided the system integrator with training, similar to that of Cisco."
HPE ProCurve is ranked 2nd in LAN Switching with 37 reviews while Juniper QFabric is ranked 9th in LAN Switching with 10 reviews. HPE ProCurve is rated 8.6, while Juniper QFabric is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HPE ProCurve writes "Offers reliability and helps with vulnerability assessment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper QFabric writes "Performs well, is easy to set up, and the vendor maintains the product well". HPE ProCurve is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Aruba Instant On Switches, Dell PowerConnect Switches, NETGEAR Switches and Cisco Nexus, whereas Juniper QFabric is most compared with Cisco Nexus and Cisco FabricPath. See our HPE ProCurve vs. Juniper QFabric report.
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