HPE ProCurve Reviews

We first bought HP ProCurve 2510 and 2610 ethernet switches just to try the product line out. We liked it, and decided to go ProCurve all the way.What I really like about HP ProCurve is the lifetime warranty. I think no other manufacturer in the industry offers this kind of warranty and really means it. I just had two HP ProCurve switches replaced about a week ago and the replacements arrived today. These switches were more than three (3) years old and yet HP still replaced them. Apart from the lifetime warranty, HP ProCurve switches have a very intuitive menu-based interface. I use it more than the web-based interface as it gives me more options and I get the job done faster. They also adopt open standards and configuring them for VLANs with other networking products just works.

The only thing that I can find wrong with the product is the web interface. Compared to Linksys, the web interface just lacks the usability that other brands offer. I don't like command line a lot that is why I go for web management. Cost-wise, they are quite expensive to say LInksys before. Even with Cisco acquiring LInksys, ProCurve still costs more than double. However, the lifetime warranty really works, and the added cost will go a long way in ensuring future support and product replacement.Despite its cons, I would still recommend HP ProCurve switches. Even if it costs more than products with the same specifications and performance, the added cost comes with lifetime warranty. If this is important to you, this is the right product.

Just one thing though. Since HP acquired H3C, there are some products which are not qualified for lifetime warranty. My contacts told me that these are H3C products and does not manufactured by HP hence the limited warranty. Just make sure to verify product warranty before purchasing to be sure.

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.

On-premises

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.

On-premises

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.

On-premises

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.

On-premises

Backup and CLI - being able to backup the device configurations within our enterprise software, our customers can track any changes made as we keep a history of all configuration changes. This is all done through "scripted" CLI interaction.

Allow configuration to saved - from our customer's point of view, I believe this allows our customers to track any changes. If they find a problem with a configuration, they can easily revert back to a point in time where they know a configuration was working.

We haven't had issues with deployment.

We haven't had issues with stability.

We haven't had issues with scalability.

Good, based upon available documentation online.

No

In-house.