HPE Aruba Ethernet Switches Reviews & Ratings 2025

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What is HPE Aruba Ethernet Switches?

HPE offers Ethernet switches under the Aruba Networks product line.

Aruba Switches are fantastic!

Rating: 9 out of 10

January 13, 2025

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We are using a couple of Aruba switches in our company. We are using a core switch in a cluster, and many other Aruba switches in the company. Approximately 15 switches are be...

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Administrator

3 years of experience

Robust network hardware that won't let you down.

Rating: 9 out of 10

January 9, 2025

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We primarily use HPE Aruba Ethernet Switches as our core and edge switches. In particular, their PoE offerings are excellent, as they are competitively priced and provide rock...

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Administrator

21 years of experience

Reliable and easy to use switching for a reasonable price

Rating: 9 out of 10

January 3, 2025

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We have a lot of POE phones and other devices that require reliable power and data routing. The HPE switches work very reliably and when you have an issue the support team is ...

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Director

8 years of experience

HPE Aruba Switches a great value, feature rich and excellent hardware.

Rating: 10 out of 10

May 20, 2023

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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 ...

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Administrator

5 years of experience

Rock solid network switch and affordable price point

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 30, 2021

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We use them for our internal office LAN. It connects our firewall, desktops, servers, and soon to be phones.

Chris Hein

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Systems Engineer

CIH

2 years of experience

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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 Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

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HPE Aruba Switches

Rating: 9 out of 10

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December 08, 2020

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Employee in Information Technology

Telecommunications Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Verified User

1 year of experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

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.

Cons

I would like for the Aruba CLI to also support HP CLI commands as well.

Likelihood to Recommend

We Deployed around 600+ Aruba Switches at multiple locations, we have not had any issues with switches just a couple of bad stacking cables and a power supply on a core switch.

Reliable and easy to use switching for a reasonable price

Rating: 9 out of 10

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January 03, 2025

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Director in Information Technology

Law Practice Company, 51-200 employees

Vetted Review

Verified User

8 years of experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have a lot of POE phones and other devices that require reliable power and data routing. The HPE switches work very reliably and when you have an issue the support team is there to help and get you running again quickly. The administration is easy and understandable, no need to get specific training for managing them.

Pros

The switches are very reliable
Support is ready to help and send replacements if needed
Easy to administer
Excellent documentation for CLI commands

Cons

The new ArubaOS is closer to Cisco switches than the OS running on the 2530 series. Could be a plus if you are familiar.
I wish there were better uplink ports, 1G seems really dated when cheaper competitors have 10G SFP+
Lack of real support for POE++ devices, most switches in the lineup are still POE+ only

Likelihood to Recommend

These devices are rock solid, you will se them up once and not have to mess with them for years. They are work horses that don't die. We use them in an office environment and have only ever had 1 fail due to a PSU issue, we got a replacement next day and it's been working great.

HPE Aruba Ethernet Switches Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 30, 2021

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Oil & Energy Company, 501-1000 employees

Vetted Review

Verified User

2 years of experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

HPE Aruba Ethernet Switches are used across the whole organization.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Every switching functionality you need can be achieved with an Aruba switch.

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Rating: 9 out of 10

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October 01, 2019

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Professional in Information Technology

Primary/Secondary Education Company, 1001-5000 employees

Vetted Review

Verified User

4 years of experience

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.