HPE Ethernet Switches Scalability

IftekharShaikh - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Tech Geek logo Tech Geek

It is a scalable solution. I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten because it depends on various factors like the network, users, and administrators. But for my work and performance, it's more than enough.

There are around 40 to 50 end users using this solution in our company. We do have plans to increase the usage because as the company grows, user numbers will also increase.

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BM
Systems Engineer at Corporate System Supply

The scalability and backbone don't come into play often. I would say HPE switches are as scalable as anything else out there.

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Reidar Lænø - PeerSpot reviewer
Area manager at Region Midtjylland

The tool is scalable for our requirements.

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Aruna Udawatte - PeerSpot reviewer
Director -Digital Transformation at Convergence Lanka

Around 250 users are extensively using HPE Ethernet Switches. We do not have plans to increase the solution's usage.

I rate HPE Ethernet Switches a six out of ten for scalability.

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AK
Manager at LAN TO WAN

The solution can scale. I'd rate it eight out of ten. It's easy to extend. 

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Bharath Kumar Gajula - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

HPE Ethernet Switches are scalable. 

We have around 3,000 end users. If the need arises, we plan to increase the number of users in the future.

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LuisSilva6 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Information Technology at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

It has good scalability. It can grow easily. 

Currently, 250 people are using it in my organization. We don't have any plans to increase its usage.

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OğuzKalaycı - PeerSpot reviewer
System engineer at Yaşar Holding

We have around 1000 users for HPE Ethernet Switches in our organization.

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Lutz Kirchner - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & CEO / CIO at German Top Secure Data Processing GmbH

It is definitely scalable. I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. 

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JP
System engineer at Colourtex Ind Ltd

They have 24 or 48 ports. It can scale. You choose according to your needs. We have 100 users. 

We do not have plans to increase usage. 

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ZH
Manager, Information Technology Security at Nesma

The tool is scalable. 

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Kelem Birhane - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Solutions Manager at Ethio Telecom

The solution is scalable and easy to expand. If a company needs to scale, it can do so.

We have maybe 1,000 people using the product in our company right now. 

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Andriejus Artamonovas - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at DataBank

HPE Ethernet Switches, especially the 1820s, are best suited to small or medium-sized organizations, however each case is model dependent. The switches we use, are used in large companies, but they are fractured into smaller layers of three subnets. 

The solution is scalable, you can add a switch when you need to, and you can reconfigure it.

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DP
Consultant at Lifeline IT

The solution is scalable to a certain extent. You won't be able to do advanced networking on it. Around 100 users are using the solution in our organization.

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SC
Regional IT at PMGL

The solution is very scalable.

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GJ
Engineer at Bit 2 Bit Communication SRL

The solution is scalable.

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MS
Consultant and technical support at joudeh center for computer and modern software

I rate the product's scalability an eight out of ten. Twenty-five to 30 users use the product.

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MM
IT Manager at GASCO

HPE Ethernet Switches are scalable.

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AhmmadMubarak - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at AZHD

It's easy to scale the product. 

We're using the solution in a hospital, and there is a 1,000-plus line.

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Kunle Oyetola - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Business at Zeta-Web Nigeria Limited

It's a product that can scale well. It's easy to expand as necessary.

We have two clients that use these switches. 

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CS
SOC at Airline Company

The solution can only scale so much. There are limitations in terms of the number of ports.

While we have one group using the switches, everyone is benefiting from them as we are using them to connect our networks.

We have about 3,000 users on the solution right now. 

I'm not sure if we have plans to increase usage. We're still coming out of the pandemic. 

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Ashford Asante - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Lancaster Kumasi City

Scalability depends heavily on how you manage them. For our current needs, we have no plans to scale up.

There are around 17 users using this in my organization. 

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FN
Sr Engineer at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is scalable. 

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MS
IT Manager at Caritas Baby Hosptial

Scalability on the solution is easy. It's not too difficult. Right now, we have about 150 users on the solution.

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JG
System Engineering Manager at pronet-engineering GmbH

This is a scalable solution. With the IRF you can stack the switches willfully together locally or geographically. You can have the same switch even if you have a switch ten kilometers away from your location.

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MR
IT Manager at a government with 51-200 employees

Scalability is determined by a pricing decision. HPEs are not at all a Juniper or anything like that, but for a budget shop like ours, they are adequate.

Our company has 250 users who use this product extensively.

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SherifHanna - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director - CEO at AINSystems

I cannot comment on the scalability because it is not something that we consider. When we decide on a solution, we go for it completely, from the beginning to the end. We start with the complete solution on day one, as opposed to starting small and then looking to scale it later on.

The number of users for each of our switches depends on the circumstances. In some sites, we have ten or twenty users. In other sites, depending on how big it is, like an industrial facility or a hotel, we do not know. Many of our solutions are used in retail or hospitality environments.

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SM
Network Telecommunications Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

It's scalable. 

We only have two clients on the solution at this time. 

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it_user251244 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Data Center Eng at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Because this is a modular device, we feel we can use scale in the future. The IRF is also important to us.

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AK
Network lead at SDGC

The product is scalable. 

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Massimo Ciofi - PeerSpot reviewer
Operational Director at Capaccioli s.r.l.

This solution is scalable.

In our company, we want to change to a Fiber backbone and the switches we have are too old and only have STF ports with a maximum speed of one gigabit. The network needs ten gigabits to scale one gigabit for the client.

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AB
CIO at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

We have not needed to scale this solution.

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it_user285354 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Network Architect at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees

All the hardware that we have, our portfolio at HP, it's pretty scalable to the latest and greatest technology. You can have a 40 GIG QSFP Uplink for the top of Rex switches, or even one for your core switches, that's over 40 GIG, 100 GIG Uplink. That is what everybody is going towards now, with all the data centers. It's up to the mark.

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KR
Senior Executive at a leisure / travel company with 201-500 employees

We have not requited the scalability of the solution. HPE Ethernet Switches have been good enough.

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GC
IT Infrastructure at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I am not sure if I can manage our new requirements through these because they are too old. We might have to replace them. Currently, they are 100 megabits and 2 gigabits. I might have to change to the gigabit one.

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Mongezi Njaju - PeerSpot reviewer
Support Engineer and Helpdesk Administrator at Praxis Computing

The solution has good scalability. We have three switches; we use two extensively, while a few users prefer the other.

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PJ
Managing Director at P & P Enterprise Solution Co.,Ltd.

We have one client using the solution.

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JF
IT Manager at a transportation company with 201-500 employees

It is scalable.

Right now, we have 200 people using this solution. We aren't planning to increase usage in the future because the global solution is appointing another brand of switches that we probably will implement in the next year.

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MS
Head of Technical Support at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees

It's mostly quite scalable and quite straightforward. 

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SC
Owner at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Our clients for this product range in size from small businesses to university campuses. In a small business, they might have 200 to 300 users with perhaps between 500 and 1,000 endpoints. The scale for a campus would be in the area of 3,000 to 5,000 endpoints.

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it_user251229 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of IT Operations with 1,001-5,000 employees

It actually has great scalability. We have high-end switches and are putting in a core switch in the next few months. We also use managed switches. Every need has a solution.

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Hoang Nguyen Pham Duc - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Engineer at Elite Technologies Jsc

It's scalable.

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BA
IT Manager at a maritime company with 51-200 employees

In terms of scalability, I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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it_user567831 - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Infrastructure Manager at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability is nice. You can stack several of them, so no problem with scalability.

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it_user567615 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of. Comm at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees

It scales for the method we have implemented at the moment. We have a large campus, over 500 buildings, so it supports that. We are in the middle of a review, so we are deciding on how we take the network forward as a strategy and then we will go to procurement. It may or may not be HPE in the future.

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it_user154293 - PeerSpot reviewer
Level 2 Network Security Engineer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
No. These switches can be outfitted with two 10Gb modules on the back for up links to other switches or to hosts. It can also be stacked with another 2920 for better port density. View full review »
RJ
Firewall Engineer at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees

We had 8,000 students using the solution in one of my client's organizations. We do plan to increase usage in the future.

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Ali Gursoy - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Cobantur

We've never run into any issues scaling the product. It's very good. Everyone in our company currently uses them.

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it_user147576 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer at Planet Technologies

No issues with scalability.

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NL
Senior Project Manager, Special Projects at a media company with 51-200 employees

It's scalable. We have scaled it without any issues.

We have 10 people in our organization who are using this product.

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RO
Team Lead Networks at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We have these switches deployed in different branches and in many cities.

In our office, we have between 10 and 12 users.

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PK
CIO at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

We've been satisfied with the scalability. We'll continue to use the solution as we haven't had any issues with it.

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it_user359700 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

You can scale by adding fiber connections to the switches which makes it simpler to join switches together, but we haven't found the need for it because the switch is so configurable.

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it_user362733 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Networks and Infrastructure at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The upgrades are all pretty easy. We do the frequent upgrades based on the release notes of HP and it's going well for us.

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it_user360837 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The scalability is very good and we're using it in all 85 of our locations.

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it_user142143 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Information Assurance Analyst at a engineering company with 51-200 employees

No. That is one thing I liked about them.

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US
Senior Manager, Information Technology at a university with 201-500 employees

This solution is easily scalable. 

In my organization, there are maybe 200 end users of this solution. 

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it_user361920 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & CTO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

If a client wants to start with a lower number of modules, they can do that. And if they want to add more modules, they can do that as well and still use the same modules.

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it_user105492 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Analyst at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
No. View full review »
TW
Owner at ITL

This is a scalable product and we have 40 engineers using it.

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RR
System Network Administrator at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

It is scalable.

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TX
IT at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

The solution can scale well. It's comparable to other switches on the market in terms of its scalability potential. If a company needs to expand it, it should be able to do so.

We have 200 users on the solution currently. We do plan to continue to use the product.

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TJ
Director at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Scalability is not an issue. The solution expands well. If a company needs to build it ut and scale it, they should be able to do so pretty easily.

I'm not sure how many people within our company actually use the solution, or how many of our clients have it. I don't know that we have around 20 technical people that work with the solution.

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it_user339819 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder and Principal Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Since the acquisition of 3COM they have data center equipment that can scale to the largest data centres out there. I think they were the first to offer 40GB and 100GB. This is some big iron stuff.

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it_user363333 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure/Applications at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
We have four sites with more than 1,400 employees and more than 300 or 400 switches -- and there have been no scalability issues. View full review »
it_user338199 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software-defined Networking Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The Openflow hardware table doesn't provide a byte-count statistic, and the software table provides a byte-count statistic but with errors. 

I found that the possible reason for this is that the software-limit rate of the switch, which is 10,000 pps maximum, with an advice in the switch manual that if we increase the limit-rate above 1,000 pps, it is possible that this increases CPU and impacts system performance.

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it_user365949 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability is also quite nice because we're used to stacking the switches up to five or six units. It would be nice to be able to stack more than that, but we don't have the need for it right now, just in the future maybe.

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it_user360441 - PeerSpot reviewer
Maintenance Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's scaled for our needs.

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it_user362208 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Consultant/Partner at IP Netpartner aps

We've been able to scale with these switches.

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it_user151515 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
HP Networking were limited to the large mid-market/small corporate until they acquired 3com View full review »
it_user362211 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Consulent/Partner at IP Netpartner Aps

They've scaled well for us.

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FA
CIO at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

It is no problem to scale this solution.

We have approximately one hundred users at our main site and thirty users at the other site.

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it_user364623 - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Head of Department of Computer Science at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have around 40 VLANs and two sites that are about 10 kilometers apart. That's a lot of volume across a long distance, and the switches have no problem with it.

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it_user283434 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Analyst at a media company with 501-1,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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NC
Head of System Engineers at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The scalability of the product is good. 

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it_user362238 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Administrator at AUTO GAMES PLUS, a.s.

We have about a hundred users.

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it_user364188 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Actually, we scaled up. We increased the the number of modules to meet the requirements we got from our branches.

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it_user268164 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user89217 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
HP works well in small scale - large scale is not good with HP. View full review »
it_user368631 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Communications at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

The scalability is very nice, especially with new products coming out. Enrollment onto our network works and there's no stability issues as we grow our workforce.

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it_user362214 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We can scale them just fine.

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it_user367791 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Architect, freelance VMware virtualization consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

They scale very easily.

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it_user143979 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network QA Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
No issues with scalability but had to use multiple switches of 24 port in cascade which was a risk for reliability in terms of speed. View full review »
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