We performed a comparison between HPE ProCurve and NETGEAR Switches 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 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."
"HPE ProCurve has plenty of features."
"The product is robust."
"Inter-VLAN is a great feature."
"Its easy manageability is most valuable. It's easy to manage."
"HPE ProCurve's most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly."
"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 GUI makes it easy to configure, manage, and work with."
"The most valuable feature to me is the modular side of things, being able to replace a module and a transceiver at our beck and call. If something goes down, or a piece of equipment is broken, I don't have to replace the whole switch. I can just replace the part that's broken or the part that is no longer working. I can get them back up and working within a matter of minutes, versus having to replace everything and reprogram everything. It's a huge time-saver."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"Their online portal is one of the most useful features. The portal is very user-friendly, so even someone with not a lot of tech experience can go in and see what's going on with the switch."
"The ability to mix and match is invaluable. So, we didn't have to run massive super extensive switches in the data closets where it wasn't necessary. Being able to manage it all from one place, as all your network configuration settings went live across your entire building from one management console was really handy."
"The solution is very powerful and versatile."
"The solution helps transfer data."
"For what I used this switch for, it did well."
"This is a cost-effective solution."
"These switches can be made more stable and robust."
"Our customers are focused on features and generally, they would like to have a more feature-rich solution."
"There should be faster interfaces on the switch, such as 25 gigabits."
"If you make a change and you disconnect yourself from the switch, you will create an issue."
"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."
"The interface we have could be better."
"Procurve would work better if it had more options like the web environment."
"The CLI is a bit confusing. It is not the easiest to manage, especially if you come from a Cisco environment."
"The security features must be improved."
"It's worked for the most part, but we've had to power cycle a few devices. We've had to ask customers to manually power cycle them with the power cord, after some of the firmware updates. Their updating needs a little improvement."
"There is a lot of delay in the data coming to the servers."
"My one issue with it is that not all the features of the switch can currently be managed via the portal. For some of the more advanced features, you still have to configure the switch."
"The M4250 switches needs more SFP models."
"Lacks switches with additional ports that provide room for new protocols of communications."
"There is a lack of documentation, and the documentation I have is unclear, so I have to rely on Google for information."
"The management of them, itself, is not so good. You have to go between many different browsers, even some super-old browsers, to be able to do it. That is a super pain."
HPE ProCurve is ranked 2nd in LAN Switching with 37 reviews while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 5th in LAN Switching with 51 reviews. HPE ProCurve is rated 8.6, while NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE ProCurve writes "Offers reliability and helps with vulnerability assessment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". HPE ProCurve is most compared with Cisco Catalyst Switches, Aruba Instant On Switches, Dell PowerConnect Switches, Cisco Nexus and Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch LAN Switches, whereas NETGEAR Switches is most compared with D-Link Ethernet Switches, Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches and Dell PowerConnect Switches. See our HPE ProCurve vs. NETGEAR Switches report.
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