HPE ProCurve Reviews

It is stable, and it fulfills our needs. We have all the functions we need, so we're totally satisfied.

There should be faster interfaces on the switch, such as 25 gigabits.

I have been using this solution for five years.

It is stable.

It is scalable.

I would rate them a 10 out of 10.

We had Cisco before. It was considerably less than Cisco.

Its initial setup is easy. 

We had help from our supplier.

We are a public company, so we are obliged to take the best offer from the vendors. 
They gave us the best price for the needs we had. It was considerably less than Cisco. It had
maybe 40% lower cost.

We evaluated Cisco, Juniper, and HPE.

I would rate it a 10 out of 10.

The solution is a network switch, this is what it is used for by my customers.

The most valuable feature is reliability.

Since we transfer from one to ten gigabits of information, in a future release, it would benefit to have more high-speed ports. For example, the uplink should be 40 gigabits or 100 gigabits. That would be very welcome. The first few models of HPE ProCurve that do have such features are way too expensive for our customer.

The image of the solution has dropped in recent years due to HPE enterprise management. Moving the location of where the product line is produced was not good.

I have been using the solution for 20 years.

We have found the solution to be entirely stable.

The solution is easy to scale. We predominately deal with small-sized businesses and the biggest configuration we have implemented so far has been 84 screens.

We have used Mikrotik and Cisco products before. For the Mikrotik products, we only use models that are routers and with the Cisco products, there seems to be a new backdoor or a failure in firmware discovered and has to be patched. I have found this solution to be the best.

Being an information scientist and a service provider, the installation is simple.

We do the implementation and the difficulty depends on the number of ports and workstations the client works with. We do not do DHCP configurations, we work with static IPs only. Each port and PC has to be configured separately which can take time.

The price could be more competitive. Everything is included in the price as there are no security features that need to be updated, it is just the hardware alone.

Before purchasing this solution it is important to read the manual, it has everything you need.

I rate HPE ProCurve an eight out of ten.

We use this switch as part of our network infrastructure and we also implement it for our clients.

This is a very durable product and the pricing is reasonable.

The GUI makes it easy to configure, manage, and work with.

Our customers are focused on features and generally, they would like to have a more feature-rich solution.

Better performance and more speed would be an improvement.

I have been working with HPE ProCurve for at least six or seven years.

HPE ProCurve is a stable solution.

The scalability depends on how the environment is designed and which modules are installed.

Our clients vary in size from small businesses to large government.

When I first started, I needed a lot of support and I found them to be excellent. Overall, I am very satisfied with it.

This solution is easy to install and configure. 

HPE ProCurve products are reasonably priced.

There are similar products by other vendors and they are all priced similarly. 

This is a good solution and I recommend it to our customers. Of course, some of them are locked into certain vendors, such as Cisco. When we introduce it to new customers using a PoC, they see that it is stable, easy to manage, and easy to use. It has worked well for us.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We were in the hospital IT sector.

The most valuable features are the price and the warranty.

The usability and manageability are good.

These switches can be made more stable and robust.

I have been working with HPE ProCurve for two or three years and my company has perhaps ten years of experience with this solution.

There are some incompatibilities with other products, which take away from stability.

We have had no issues or complaints about scalability.

I have not been in contact with technical support.

The initial setup is straightforward.

The price of this product is cheap.

This is a product that I recommend.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We are in the healthcare industry. Most of our switches are modular because we need a lot of ports in one location.

The most valuable feature is reliability.

The pricing could be improved.

I would like to see some kind of packet tracer where people can study how the switch is operating.

White box switching support is something that I would like to see in the future.

I have been working with HPE ProCurve for at least 17 years.

This is a very reliable solution. In the 17 years that I have been using this product, I have had two power supply failures. However, these did not result in downtime because each switch has at least two power supplies. I was never left without the switch working due to a hardware failure.

We have more than 1,000 users in total but on a daily basis, there are 600 to 700 users in two locations.

The technical support from HP is very good. The last time I had a question, not a repair, but just a question of any kind was perhaps 10 years ago. I normally have a good recovery plan in advance of making any changes, which means that I don't have to bother the HP help desk with frivolous questions.

Prior to this solution, I was working with Cisco switches, which we still have a lot of. We have physical network layers and for some purposes, the Cisco switches are very good. My preference, however, is ProCurve.

I have experience with switches from Dell. They lack some features but they are much cheaper than HPE.

I find the initial setup to be easy and straightforward.

I perform the implementation, deployment, and maintenance. If I need to clear up the fiber channel, a transceiver, or something else, then I do it myself. If we need to connect and patch one of the switches then I just configure a port, send an email, and the local staff can do the patching.

This is an expensive switch.

My advice to anybody who is implementing this solution is to plan well. Most of the reason for error is poor planning. Be sure to ask your vendor questions because there are no dumb questions. Rather, silly mistakes happen when people implement without a full understanding.

This is a good product but there is always room for improvement in these kinds of devices.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

The solution is primarily used as more access for users and as more access for layer switches.

The user interface is the most valuable aspect of the solution for us. 

The equipment, overall, works quite well.

The solution should offer different gigabit interfaces. Right now, they have ten gigabits. However, for our needs, we only need one gigabit. We don't need 24 or 48 ports. We only need eight to ten. HPE should introduce into their portfolio some smaller and more compact options.

The solution should offer integration with other tools.

The solution should offer the same user interface for all of their equipment.

I've been using the solution for ten years. It's been quite a long time.

The stability of the solution is very good. There are no bugs or glitches that we have seen. We haven't faced any crashes.

The scalability of the solution is quite good. Companies shouldn't have trouble scaling if they need to.

We haven't faced any issues with the product so we haven't had any reason to contact technical support.

We didn't have any problems setting up the solution. We found it to be quite straightforward. It wasn't complex.

I'd recommend the solution to others. It's worked quite well for us. I'd rate it nine out of ten.

The primary use case of this solution is for switching. We also use it for an iSCSI device to support storage and networking.

The web page interface is very convenient and easy to use for setting up your feedback loops.

The dashboards could be improved and made more interesting.

I have been using HPE ProCurve for more than ten years.

This solution is very stable, we have not experienced any issues.

This solution is scalable.

On average, we have twenty users and two administrators. We have a very small team.

I had contacted technical support at one time when my firmware update was not going very well. They were able to fix it.

The initial setup was rather straightforward.

The length of time it takes to deploy depends on your architecture, and what you want to set up, but normally it takes a couple of days to set it all up.

Maintenance requirments are only a couple of hours per month.

We had the help of our team to implement the solution.

The purchasing cost a few years ago for two units was approx €5,000.

This solution is good and it's solid. It does its job. 

I would recommend this solution because it's affordable, scalable, and it is everything you need.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We are a system integrator and we periodically sell web fabric to our customers. This is one of the solutions that we provide.

This solution is normally implemented with rack mount servers and other equipment such as HPE StoreOnce.

The best features of HPE ProCurve are the price and the service.

The user interface is simple to use.

I would like to see integration with HPE OneView. OneView is the management software for some switches and storage, and it would be helpful if ProCurve could be managed using this tool.

I have been familiar with HPE ProCurve for about two years.

At times, I have contact with technical support. I would say that they are very good.

The initial setup is complex. It takes several days to deploy.

The cost of HPE ProCurve is good.

This is a good product and one that I recommend.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

Normally, I use it for the core environment and the solution switches. I have these two environments, the core, and the switches. Sometimes they have other or alternative environments. It's a solution environment for the back office. That's how I use it.

In terms of valuable features, I like its ability to configure. I know the other models like Cisco, and I think that HPE's ProCurve are easy to configure and to know how to create each connection and configuration.

I don't have any problem at all with HPE ProCurve. I have a lot of experience with it, and I know that HP normally changes its equipment and technology. Maybe it would work better with HP if I only had one type of equipment since they have ProCurve, Aruba, and OfficeConnect. Every team is different. Our office is a different population. I know that ProCurve is really equal to Aruba, but there isn't any other equipment that HP has.

It would be good if the switch was bigger and faster, like with the ports.

I have been using HPE ProCurve for 20 years, since it went on the market.

In terms of stability, when I see an issue happening, HP takes care of the bugs. They have very fast tools to deal with the issues. The technical support from HP is really fast to resolve the problem.

Same with IT issues. We see the number of problems resolved with the new configuration.

ProCurve is scalable if the equipment is right for your environment. If you want to build a solution, they have the equipment for it. But I think more people are using HP Aruba switches than ProCurve. I believe that ProCurve will be replaced by the Aruba equipment because in the last year we haven't used the ProCurve switch as much but we have used Aruba. But I think it is a good tool, and we have some clients who are using ProCurve switches for many years and they are still working. They don't have any problems. I like ProCurve with the equipment.

The technical support from HP is very fast at resolving the problems, whether it's bugs or something like that.

Before using HPE ProCurve I was using Switchcom. I also normally use Aruba and OfficeConnect.

Setup is really simple. I think that the initial setup would be better if there were more questions, like with Cisco. When we started with Cisco equipment the first time, they asked many questions about the equipment. HP didn't have questions. I know that many people are on the web environment of the installation of this configuration. 

When comparing Aruba and the ProCurve equipment, with Aruba, there is more community on the web, and with ProCurve, there is less. It doesn't matter because I use the free environment, mostly. It's rare that I use the Aruba environment since I use the free one. I see that many people only use the web environment with Aruba and that it offers more features. I think ProCurve would work better if it had more options like the web environment.

On a scale of one to ten, I would give HPE ProCurve an eight.

The primary use case of this solution is as a switch and we are working on link aggregation switches at the moment.

The features that I like the most are the price, the feature sets, the no-nonsense warranty, and lifetime updates. This is the main benefit.

With Juniper, I like that they have an option to bundle a configuration change and commit it with the confirmed option. The switch will roll back if you don't confirm the change.

If you make a change and you disconnect yourself from the switch, you will create an issue. You just wait five or ten minutes for the switch to change back to the previous configuration. This is a nice feature that is offered with Juniper, which would improve the HPE ProCurve.

I have been using this solution for about 25 years.

We are using the latest version.

This solution is very stable.

The model that we are currently using is scalable enough for me.

I don't contact the technical support often. It was a long time ago when I was last in contact with technical support and it was very good.

While it has not been recent and they may have changed, when I used them, it was very professional. They were very nice and they solved the issue that I was having.

Also, they ship replacement parts or replacement products with no problem.

I work with several clients with several vendors, so I have experience with other solutions.

Most of the time our clients are using several vendors and we are trying to standardize to just one of them. HPE was used the most at that time.

The initial setup was very straightforward.

It takes less than a day to deploy this solution.

I completed the implementation by myself.

You buy the switch and that's it. 

It has a lifetime warranty, that includes lifetime updates.

I have looked at different vendors. I looked at Cisco, which is the main competitor.

Based on the required features and price, HPE was the better option.

If they are looking into implementing this solution, just go with it. It would be very wise.

I would recommend this product.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.