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What is HPE Aruba Ethernet Switches?
HPE offers Ethernet switches under the Aruba Networks product line.
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HPE offers Ethernet switches under the Aruba Networks product line.
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The most common users of HPE Aruba Ethernet Switches are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Users have found HPE Aruba switches to be highly valuable for their office LAN setups, allowing them to connect various devices such as firewalls, desktops, servers, and phones. These switches offer a range of features, including VLAN and trunking capabilities, that provide efficient network segmentation and traffic management. One notable advantage is their support for SSH and SNMP access, enabling remote monitoring of networks. HPE Aruba Ethernet Switches are widely used across organizations' network infrastructures, facilitating connectivity for IP phones, WiFi access points, computers, and IoT devices. Users appreciate the ease of implementation and management, as well as the added value of a lifetime hardware warranty. Upgrading to Aruba Gigabit Switches like the 2930m, 3810, 5412, and 5406 models has proven reliable for interconnecting campuses and establishing connections with end-devices. The CLI's similarity to Cisco switches results in a smooth transition for users familiar with Cisco's interface. Additionally, users find ArubaOS to be an efficient operating system. With support for L3/L2 and routing protocols, these switches offer versatile solutions for different network roles.
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We currently use HPE Aruba switches in all our offices and
in all the nodes in our MAN.
These switches offer excellent value and features in our
current usage.
We currently have around 80 switches and some other Aruba
products in our network, so we need business-class products but also have a restrictive
IT budget, so the HPE Aruba line of products meets our needs.
- Easy to set up and configure.
- Price
- Good quality hardware.
- Lifetime Warranty.
- Expensive management software.
- Some of the CX range of switches can be slow to boot/reboot.
- Currently a lot of stock issues.
We use HPE Aruba Switches all over our organization. They allow us to use extra switch features such as VLAN and trunking compared to a "dumb" switch that has no management capability. We like that they support SSH and SNMP access so we can monitor them remotely.
- Simple configuration
- Easy firmware upgrades
- Supported by HP for a long time
- Web interface is a bit weird
- Some things can't be done in the web interface
April 30, 2021
Rock solid network switch and affordable price point
We use them for our internal office LAN. It connects our firewall, desktops, servers, and soon to be phones.
- Redundant power supplies
- Seems to be well built
- UI is nice
- More ability to use UI instead of CLI for configuration
- Ability to download updates direct from HPE
- Spanning tree not turned on as default
April 30, 2021
HPE Aruba Ethernet Switches Review
HPE Aruba Ethernet Switches are used across the whole organization.
- REST API capability
- Wired & Wireless 802.1x configuration easiness
- Wireless Access Points (APs) zero touch provisioning
- Its high-end family (running the AOS-CX firmware) supports a virtualization technology called VSX (Virtual Switching Extension) which allows 2 switches to present itself as one virtualized switch under Layer 2, and as 2 separate routers under Layer 3; thereby providing high availability.
- The AOS-CX family should have an easy way to backup their configuration rather than using an automation tool like Ansible or Python or Network Analytic Engine (NAE) to do it. Its PVOS family has that functionality which makes it easy to backup its configuration. That same functionality should be transferred to the AOS-CX family as well.
- ArubaOS CLI commands should have backward compatibility with PVOS switches. These two are one company now.
- I understand that there are a lot of automation tools now for orchestration and device management purposes but, adding the ability of Cisco's Embedded Event Manager (EEM) would definitely add to its pros.
April 27, 2021
Smooth sailing to Aruba
HPE Aruba Ethernet Switches are being used across the entire organization. Ease of deployment and management have made for a smooth transition to this product in our environment. They provice network connectivity for IP phones, WiFi access points, computers, and IoT devices
- Ease of deployment
- Ease of management
- Reliability
- Command line learning curve.
December 08, 2020
HPE Aruba Switches
We are currently using and deploying Aruba Switches across our whole organization. We are upgrading our network with Aruba 2930m, 3810, 5412,5406 Gigabit Switches.
- Aruba switches are well built the modular power supplies are a plus.
- Swithces are so silent you don't even know they are on.
- VSF Stacking is easy to setup.
- I would like for the Aruba CLI to also support HP CLI commands as well.
November 12, 2019
HPE Aruba Ethernet Switches are a good choice
We use HPE Aruba Ethernet Switches to give our collaborations network access and to connect access points. We use them to access and for distribution, not for the network core.
- Easy web administration.
- Good price and features.
- Not all features are configurable from web GUI.
October 28, 2019
Very cost effective switches with an unbeatable warranty
Our network infrastructure is almost exclusively HPE or Aruba switches. These switches are a great value even before the lifetime hardware warranty is taken into consideration. We have switch models spanning module backbone down to client access roles. These switches are very easy to implement and manage and include a lifetime hardware warranty.
- Some switch manufacturers require an additional license to be purchased to access some features. Aruba switches come with all features included.
- The HPE Aruba lifetime hardware warranty is unbeatable. Not only are these switches very cost-effective but the warranty makes staying with Aruba switches a no brainer.
- Aruba switches are very easy to implement and configure. A new switch can often be configured within a matter of minutes. Other switch operating systems have a much steeper learning curve.
- I have had issues finding monitoring software that natively supports Provision/Aruba OS. Most are designed primarily with Cisco in mind.
- HPE/Aruba switches have historically had issues with corrupt flash. This seems to be less common in more recent models.
- HPE/Aruba's switching portfolio can be confusing. Some models run on the Aruba OS while some others run on Comware. There is some overlap in these model lines so at times is can be tough to tell which switch is right.
October 01, 2019
Switch to HPE Aruba switches
I don't have too many complaints. CLI is similar to Cisco, not too much of a learning curve. The company I work for is almost all HPE switching gear. We use the Aruba campus wide for endpoint connectivities, etc. ArubaOS is a good OS so far, so good. The switches supports L3/L2 and also routing protocols.
- Stacking switches very easier
- Enhanced GUI for those that hate CLI
- They are releasing firmware updates constantly
- They can enhance the cli a little bit more
- Need to fix SNMPv3 to send more information instead of syslog type messages
September 18, 2019
Explore Aruba - not the island
We use it all across the board. Their performance are very great, is very similar to Cisco switches. We use it to interconnect campuses with the Edge Devices. Mostly, we use it for access connections to end-devices.
- You can make Stack. That is how we use them, using stacking cables to connect up to 4 devices in our case.
- Better OS than old HP series.
- Great GUI if you don't like the CLI.
- They support 2 power supplies for redundancy
- They need to improve on the delivery of traps to the NCM.
- Traps and syslogs are sometimes too generics.