We performed a comparison between Arista Networks Platform and Aruba Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Ethernet Switches solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"We find the CloudVision switching feature of this solution really useful."
"The best part is the single operating system that they have. Regardless of your model, it's the same operating system functioning across the board, which means you don't have to worry about backward compatibilities between your older switches and the new ones that you deploy."
"It provides telemetry and visibility for many metrics that are not supported by most of the other vendors. Out of the box, no third party solutions are needed."
"The user-friendly policy manager lets us apply different controls for various user groups easily."
"Arista Networks Platform offers straightforward deployment, and has good features. Support for the platform is also good."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"What we like most is its performance to price ratio."
"It is a very good device for our company. It is stable and very scalable."
"With Aruba, I like its stability and lifetime warranty."
"Aruba Switches are definitely stable."
"We didn't experience any stability or scalability issues until now with Aruba Switches"
"It is pretty easy to implement the product."
"All of the networking products that we use are Aruba, so we use Aruba Central to manage them."
"I like the Aruba Central platform. It makes a lot of sense. The switches have a lot of great capabilities. Central can lockdown VLANs and control the apps and protocols. There are several built-in security features that I'm not utilizing. However, those capabilities are part of the reason I'm using enterprise switches in a small office. I like knowing that I can do these things when necessary."
"I like the number of available throughputs and its ability to have different speeds of ethernet cards or fiber-optic SFPs. It's a core switch, and you can configure it as per your requirements. All the configuration details are well documented on the HP website or Aruba website, and one can easily refer to those and find all the relevant commands from the documentation itself. It's also easy to maintain this solution. It's also cheaper than competing products."
"The solution needs to accommodate new features."
"A smoother transition between ISPs during failover would improve the user experience by reducing unnecessary notifications and interruptions."
"Something that you will often hear about Arista products is that the price is a bit too high and, like with Cisco, we sometimes have problems with our customers because of its pricing."
"The overall price of the Arista Networks Platform is expensive. It should be reduced."
"The solution is a bit pricey."
"The solution’s pricing could be better."
"Arista Networks Platform should focus on improving the compatibility or integration with Cisco solutions."
"The community is good but is not good enough. It still needs to grow more."
"Aruba does not have local support in our region of Kerala."
"The product could be a little more competitive price-wise."
"We don't have visibility in Aruba Switches and we are thinking of switching to Fortiswitch because it has visibility."
"The dashboard could be improved, especially for the CX Switches. It would help to push scripts and configurations via an easy to use dashboard, one which would give us complete visibility of all of our switches in one place. Right now, we have more than one dashboard for Aruba. It would be nice if it was centralized."
"The firmware in this solution has a lot of bugs that become noticeable when you have complex implementations."
"There are some growing pains with Aruba Central. When you first launch the wireless access points or switches, a lot of updates are needed to get Aruba Central ready, especially on the access points, so the initial deployment time could improve. I would hope that I could just turn it on and leave the updates until later on. The switches themselves probably did okay. I'm primarily referring to the wireless access points. There was a lot of back and forth before everything was in sync. It took hours."
"The software materials could be improved."
"I would like to see the data center area improving by some added features in the future."
Arista Networks Platform is ranked 13th in Ethernet Switches with 21 reviews while Aruba Switches is ranked 2nd in Ethernet Switches with 70 reviews. Arista Networks Platform is rated 8.6, while Aruba Switches is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Arista Networks Platform writes "Affordable for enterprise-sized companies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Aruba Switches writes "As a managed service provider, it's important to have a solution that can manage everything from one console". Arista Networks Platform is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Cisco Nexus, Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches and Meraki MS Switches, whereas Aruba Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access, Meraki MS Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches and 3Com H3C Switches. See our Arista Networks Platform vs. Aruba Switches report.
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