Sometimes the machines get stuck or disconnected, requiring a restart. When connection issues occur, we need to contact the DigitalOcean service team to restart or reboot the system. There are issues even with 8GB RAM configurations. Regarding DigitalOcean's performance, it deserves a 6 to 7 rating. When running bots, the system occasionally gets stuck, requiring reboots which result in memory loss and data loss. We frequently experience disconnections from instances and cannot reconnect without team intervention and system restarts. These issues necessitate maintaining backups to recover lost data.
Founder at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 10
Aug 15, 2024
The product could improve scalability and support for advanced networking features. Including advanced interfaces like QSFP and enhanced support for AI-driven network solutions would make it more competitive in environments requiring higher performance and scalability.
The user interface (UI) could be better. Sometimes navigating through the switch interface to find specific features wasn't very intuitive. As an administrator, the layout could make it difficult to quickly locate settings. You might end up searching through various menus, which takes time. This gets easier with familiarity, but it can be challenging initially. The command structure wasn't always as straightforward as something like Cisco.
Frankly speaking, the switches are very good and have been running without any shutdowns for more than a year. HPE's team has already monitored the switches. Network performance-wise, it is a good product. The network performance can be made simpler. A few areas included in the network performance managers can be integrated into the solution's dashboard since it is the only area with a few concerns. The network performance manager should be integrated with the dashboard.
My company switched from HPE ProCurve to Ubiquiti UniFi since we wanted one solution for our entire network. In general, HPE ProCurve should have more capabilities to offer. HPE ProCurve's web interface is old, and I have to log in on each device separately, making them the product's shortcomings that need improvement. With Ubiquiti UniFi, I have my login page where I can see every network on every company I manage.
The product must provide something similar to Cisco’s command-line interface. People in my line of work prefer the command-line interface. When I work on Cisco, it feels familiar.
I would like to improve certain aspects of HPE ProCurve. Specifically, I would like to focus on stacking. Additionally, in enhancing performance and addressing spam-related issues. Perhaps, another area of improvement is optimizing the route advertising and routing between VLANs. It's also important to consider rating the calls and accessing additional features. If we're aiming for an improvement, focus on enhancing security features in HPE ProCurve, particularly in terms of filtering. It would be beneficial to have some initial firewall features or mechanisms to safeguard resources. Additionally, maximizing high-speed capabilities and addressing aggregate needs would be important. That covers the key areas for improvement.
Owner at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
Real User
Jul 11, 2022
An area for improvement in HPE ProCurve is the web interface not being as robust because you still have to go to the COI to make modifications or look at the exact configuration.
Senior Network/Security/collaboration Engineer at Abdulla Fouad Group
Real User
Mar 23, 2022
HPE ProCurve could improve by making their command more similar to other solutions, such as the access codes. There should be a standard. Additionally, if the configurations could be done from the cloud would be a benefit and the port uplink speed should improve.
IT service provider at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Feb 16, 2021
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.
Managing Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Real User
May 25, 2020
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.
Quality engineer of the 1st category at Modern Expo
Real User
Mar 30, 2020
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.
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 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.
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 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.
IT Network & Security Engineer at a mining and metals company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Dec 25, 2019
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.
System Administrator at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Real User
Dec 11, 2019
I don't see any flaw in the product at this time. I'm a happy customer. 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 speed could be higher, and more than 10 gigabits. We are in the process of buying large switches, and the higher the speed the better. It's that feature that involves a high cost, however. We find it challenging at the moment to find a low-cost solution.
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Sometimes the machines get stuck or disconnected, requiring a restart. When connection issues occur, we need to contact the DigitalOcean service team to restart or reboot the system. There are issues even with 8GB RAM configurations. Regarding DigitalOcean's performance, it deserves a 6 to 7 rating. When running bots, the system occasionally gets stuck, requiring reboots which result in memory loss and data loss. We frequently experience disconnections from instances and cannot reconnect without team intervention and system restarts. These issues necessitate maintaining backups to recover lost data.
The product could improve scalability and support for advanced networking features. Including advanced interfaces like QSFP and enhanced support for AI-driven network solutions would make it more competitive in environments requiring higher performance and scalability.
The user interface (UI) could be better. Sometimes navigating through the switch interface to find specific features wasn't very intuitive. As an administrator, the layout could make it difficult to quickly locate settings. You might end up searching through various menus, which takes time. This gets easier with familiarity, but it can be challenging initially. The command structure wasn't always as straightforward as something like Cisco.
Frankly speaking, the switches are very good and have been running without any shutdowns for more than a year. HPE's team has already monitored the switches. Network performance-wise, it is a good product. The network performance can be made simpler. A few areas included in the network performance managers can be integrated into the solution's dashboard since it is the only area with a few concerns. The network performance manager should be integrated with the dashboard.
The solution's pricing could be made cheaper.
The product could be cheaper.
My company switched from HPE ProCurve to Ubiquiti UniFi since we wanted one solution for our entire network. In general, HPE ProCurve should have more capabilities to offer. HPE ProCurve's web interface is old, and I have to log in on each device separately, making them the product's shortcomings that need improvement. With Ubiquiti UniFi, I have my login page where I can see every network on every company I manage.
The product must provide something similar to Cisco’s command-line interface. People in my line of work prefer the command-line interface. When I work on Cisco, it feels familiar.
I would like to improve certain aspects of HPE ProCurve. Specifically, I would like to focus on stacking. Additionally, in enhancing performance and addressing spam-related issues. Perhaps, another area of improvement is optimizing the route advertising and routing between VLANs. It's also important to consider rating the calls and accessing additional features. If we're aiming for an improvement, focus on enhancing security features in HPE ProCurve, particularly in terms of filtering. It would be beneficial to have some initial firewall features or mechanisms to safeguard resources. Additionally, maximizing high-speed capabilities and addressing aggregate needs would be important. That covers the key areas for improvement.
The pricing model could be improved in HPE ProCurve.
One of the weakest points of this solution is its on-premise. We are not able to do all we need to with the CLI.
The CLI is a bit confusing. It is not the easiest to manage, especially if you come from a Cisco environment.
They should learn from other vendors, such as Cisco. They all have a few specific routing features. HPE doesn't have any cheap BGP solution.
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.
An area for improvement in HPE ProCurve is the web interface not being as robust because you still have to go to the COI to make modifications or look at the exact configuration.
We don't really have any complaints. We aren't missing any features. It might be best if it offers better scalability.
HPE ProCurve could improve by making their command more similar to other solutions, such as the access codes. There should be a standard. Additionally, if the configurations could be done from the cloud would be a benefit and the port uplink speed should improve.
There should be faster interfaces on the switch, such as 25 gigabits.
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.
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.
These switches can be made more stable and robust.
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.
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.
The dashboards could be improved and made more interesting.
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.
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 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.
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 doesn't have web-based management, which is why we've moved to a different solution.
I don't see any flaw in the product at this time. I'm a happy customer. 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 speed could be higher, and more than 10 gigabits. We are in the process of buying large switches, and the higher the speed the better. It's that feature that involves a high cost, however. We find it challenging at the moment to find a low-cost solution.