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."The solution is fast and inexpensive."
"The user interface is the most valuable aspect of the solution for us."
"It is easy to deploy."
"HPE ProCurve is used to connect servers and storage in the data center."
"The user interface is simple to use."
"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 is very complex for junior engineers and beginners. You need a lot of experience in managing switches in order to use this switch."
"We don't mind the cost in general."
"The most valuable feature of QFabric for network performance is its stability."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"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."
"It is known for being agile, flexible, and cost-effective when working with various vendors."
"Juniper QFabric has various advantages including scalability, simplicity, performance, and flexibility."
"The vendor maintains the product well."
"The solution is stable."
"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 interface we have could be better."
"I would like to see some kind of packet tracer where people can study how the switch is operating."
"Procurve would work better if it had more options like the web environment."
"The pricing model could be improved in HPE ProCurve."
"The solution doesn't have web-based management, which is why we've moved to a different solution."
"The product must provide something similar to Cisco’s command-line interface."
"The only things that might need improvement would be the administrative tools and the graphical interface. The GUI could be improved on the administrative interface, for example."
"The product could be cheaper."
"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."
"The disruptive upgrade was an issue for us."
"The stability needs to be improved."
"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."
"Having support for all OpenFlow versions would be beneficial."
"It works too much on rebooting and there is some memory leakage."
"The pricing structure could be more budget-friendly."
"Improvements could be made to QFabric's life cycle management, particularly in maintaining stable versions and extending product support."
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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