We performed a comparison between Cisco FabricPath 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 technical support we get from Cisco is excellent. It's the best in the industry. We're more than satisfied with the level of service they provide."
"Additional bandwidth is available when needed."
"The technical assistance is good."
"The solution has excellent stability."
"The most valuable features are the security, web control, and traffic control."
"The most valuable feature is the central management where the customer can receive all the alerts."
"It's a reliable product and you know that it will work in the enterprise environment."
"We have found the solution to be stable."
"The most valuable features are the price and the warranty."
"HPE ProCurve is used to connect servers and storage in the data center."
"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."
"The most valuable features of HPE ProCurve are the reports, lifetime warranty, and CLI."
"It has a lifetime warranty, that includes lifetime updates."
"The web page interface is very convenient and easy to use for setting up your feedback loops."
"It's easy to manage and configure. The configurations can be exported and imported to another solution."
"We have found the solution to be entirely stable."
"If Cisco can include management for this protocol in Layer 3, that would be ideal."
"The cloud version of Cisco Fabric Path could be improved."
"The solution is complex to set up."
"Cisco FabricPath's pricing is expensive."
"The management features are in need of improvement."
"I would like to see better interoperability with other IT solutions."
"The product lacks AI...The initial setup of Cisco FabricPath was a bit complex."
"The price is a little bit too high."
"If we're aiming for an improvement, focus on enhancing security features in HPE ProCurve, particularly in terms of filtering."
"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."
"The product must provide something similar to Cisco’s command-line interface."
"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 interface we have could be better."
"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."
"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."
"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."
Cisco FabricPath is ranked 8th in LAN Switching with 22 reviews while HPE ProCurve is ranked 2nd in LAN Switching with 36 reviews. Cisco FabricPath is rated 8.2, while HPE ProCurve is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco FabricPath writes "On overall effective product with good performance and a simple setup ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE ProCurve writes "Offers reliability and helps with vulnerability assessment". Cisco FabricPath is most compared with Juniper QFabric, Cisco Nexus and Arista Campus LAN Switches, whereas HPE ProCurve is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Aruba Instant On Switches, NETGEAR Switches, Dell PowerConnect Switches and Cisco Nexus. See our Cisco FabricPath vs. HPE ProCurve report.
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