We performed a comparison between Aruba Switches and Meraki MS Switches based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Many PeerSpot users feel Aruba Switches is the better choice. Aruba switches are stable, easy to manage, and support stacking. The Aruba Switches audit feature gives full transparency of the network and the layer three switches are reliable and easily scalable.
"Aruba Central is very valuable to us."
"It's an excellent product. They're high-quality switches, and nothing has failed in the time that we've had them."
"When it comes to basic L2 switching, we've found that Aruba switches are very user-friendly in terms of configuration and management. I haven't had the opportunity to utilize Aruba Central for managing the switches yet, so I can't speak to that aspect. However, overall, we've found the deployment process for Aruba switches to be very straightforward."
"The most valuable features are stability, ease of management, and the monitoring tool."
"The most valuable features of Aruba Switches are the use of use and user-friendliness."
"The advantage I found is that they can be used as both on-premises devices and cloud-managed devices, with the option for an additional license to become cloud devices. This flexibility is very valuable to us."
"Licensing costs are competitive with other solutions on the market."
"We can scale as needed."
"Console of the dashboard is well integrated."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is very stable."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The interface is great. It's easy to understand for the customer."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard because it makes it easy to manage all of the switches. It's easy to turn them up and get it configured."
"I like the flexibility of the Meraki firewall. It gives you the ability to lock things down. Having multiple VLANs is helpful for the switching infrastructure and firewall. It's crucial when you have a public-facing VLAN, a private-facing VLAN, and a secure VLAN."
"Its cloud feature and cloud management are great. They are the most valuable aspects."
"The migration from older to newer products could be improved."
"The port flexibility on the 54 series, specifically the 5406 for core usage, could be improved. When I want to upgrade to 10G, I don't have many options to choose from."
"In my opinion, Aruba's new features, like the new firmware, need to be improved."
"The interface could be more user-friendly and the dashboard could be improved."
"We've had issues with availability."
"The customer service could be a bit quicker and the employees could be more professional."
"It takes a long time to import Aruba switches to Ecuador."
"Aruba Switches cover lots of areas and support automated and IOPS and with the central products, but I think when we look at the solutions overall, IOPS devices are not covered so much in Aruba Central. We are in Croatia and it is a small country, I don't know how its situation is in Europe, America, or Asia."
"The solution could be simplified a bit."
"The MS Switches are incapable of doing trunking."
"We had issues with the stability, issues with the pricing, and the total cost of ownership."
"The traffic reporting should be better in Meraki MS Switches. We want to be able to see all the traffic and where it is going. Additionally, detailed device utilization information would be very helpful for the security personnel."
"Mandatory maintenance is an area that needs improvement."
"Less flexibility than in some other solutions."
"The product demonstrates poor price per performance when compared with its competitors."
"In this solution, you are lacking a feature that Cisco Classic has that allows you to save your configuration with a serial cable."
Aruba Switches is ranked 2nd in Ethernet Switches with 70 reviews while Meraki MS Switches is ranked 5th in Ethernet Switches with 87 reviews. Aruba Switches is rated 8.4, while Meraki MS Switches is rated 8.4. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki MS Switches writes "They're not expensive and configuration is very easy". Aruba Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches and MikroTik Routers and Switches, whereas Meraki MS Switches is most compared with Cisco Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, NETGEAR Switches, Fortinet FortiSwitch - Secure Access and Arista Networks Platform. See our Aruba Switches vs. Meraki MS Switches report.
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