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."HPE ProCurve's most valuable feature is that it is user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of HPE ProCurve is its ease of use and implementation."
"This is a very reliable solution."
"The web page interface is very convenient and easy to use for setting up your feedback loops."
"HPE ProCurve is used to connect servers and storage in the data center."
"One of the biggest things in HPE ProCurve that I like, though not necessarily a feature, is the HPE warranty because it's probably better than any of the other vendors that we deal with, as it has a lifetime replacement. Feature-wise, the web interface of HPE ProCurve is typically pretty good and I like that as well."
"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 network management solutions that they have is great."
"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."
"QFabric supports redundancy and includes all of the enterprise and service provider features that customers would want in data center or service provider network."
"It is known for being agile, flexible, and cost-effective when working with various vendors."
"It's user-friendly."
"The vendor maintains the product well."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"Juniper QFabric has various advantages including scalability, simplicity, performance, and flexibility."
"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 might be best if it offers better scalability."
"The pricing model could be improved in HPE ProCurve."
"The dashboards could be improved to be more interesting."
"These switches can be made more stable and robust."
"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."
"Procurve would work better if it had more options like the web environment."
"We do occasionally have issues with the solution and need to change out the switches sometimes. This can be due to the fan, but, in most cases, it's because the power supply was broken."
"The solution's pricing could be made cheaper."
"The disruptive upgrade was an issue for us."
"The stability needs to be improved."
"It would be nice if Juniper provided the system integrator with training, similar to that of Cisco."
"It works too much on rebooting and there is some memory leakage."
"The pricing structure could be more budget-friendly."
"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."
"Having support for all OpenFlow versions would be beneficial."
"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."
HPE ProCurve is ranked 2nd in LAN Switching with 35 reviews while Juniper QFabric is ranked 10th in LAN Switching with 9 reviews. HPE ProCurve is rated 8.6, while Juniper QFabric is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of HPE ProCurve writes "Warranty is better as it comes with lifetime replacement, and its web interface is good". 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, NETGEAR Switches, Dell PowerConnect 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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