Cohesity DataProtect Reviews

We are primarily using Cohesity for Backup and Recovery (and compliance). We can use it for "basic" disaster recovery, but we are looking to implement CloudSpin and a cloud Cohesity node in Azure for replication and to bring our DR to the next level.

This will allow us to collapse our secondary/DR datacentre, retire aging hardware (avoiding maintenance costs and/or new equipment costs), and move to a cloud disaster recovery solution.

Our old backup and recovery solution was much too big for our organization, whereas Cohesity is powerful and simple!

I would say one of the most impressive features of Cohesity is the ease of implementation. During our Proof of Concept, I had the virtual edition set up in our VMware environment, licensed, and backing up virtual machines within an hour.

When we installed the physical nodes as part of the production implementation, the longest part of that process was unboxing, racking, and cabling the hardware. Bringing up the cluster was dead simple and having done the Proof of Concept previously, I was able to get all of my sources added very quickly.

Cohesity is extremely easy to use and intuitive. I have done a couple of demos of the product to my team and they are all very impressed with the GUI and how it works. The indexing/searchability that Cohesity provides has also been a huge hit!

The indexed search is amazing! It has already proved itself useful when trying to help our end users find files that could be in any number of different locations on our NAS. We're able to find and recover them quickly, which saves our end users time and the company, money!

Dev/Test is something we are also playing with and has some really cool applications.

Being able to create a NFS mount using a Cohesity view has been really useful.

We've been using O365 backups for Exchange Online and backing up the mailboxes on-premises.

We're still waiting for the ability to backup SharePoint Online & OneDrive but have been told it is coming soon. As we move towards a "cloud-first" implementation strategy for new solutions, these types of backup/recovery features will become more important.

We have Oracle databases running on Linux servers in our environment and we have found the Oracle backups were quite complex to setup. Simplifying the backup and recovery of Oracle would go a long way.

NAS incremental backup performance is a bit slow. This has apparently been fixed in version 6.4.0, but we waiting for it to go LTS before upgrading.

We implemented Cohesity in October 2019, so we've been using it for about four months. We completed a Proof of Concept with Cohesity over the summer of 2019, which solidified our decision to go with their solution.

We've already had a power failure to the Cohesity cluster where a UPS went down. In our environment, we have 2 UPSs (an A-side and a B-side) ... we lost the A-Side, but because the Cohesity chassis has dual power supplies that support the same power backplane in the chassis, all 3 nodes of our cluster stayed up. The Cohesity cluster also has a call-home feature that generated a problem ticket with Cohesity support automatically, which emailed our team that a power supply issue had been detected.

Upgrades are also very easy; in a multi-node cluster, the upgrade process takes one node out at a time and upgrades it before moving on to the next node. No downtime required. 

The scalability is one of the best features. Basically, you just need to add hardware and licensing to expand the cluster.

Customer support from our local team has been great. There is lots of expertise and a general willingness to help. Cohesity support has been great and they are often proactive about creating service tickets if they notice an error on the cluster.

Cohesity is simple to install, configure, and maintain. Our old system was very complex and did not integrate well with cloud backups.

Setup of both the PoC and physical cluster were very simple. The most complex part of the physical setup was finding someone to help me lift it into the rack!

We have realized substantial cost savings over our old solution, as well as avoiding expenses related to aging hardware such as maintenance and possible replacement.

We evaluated Microsoft Backup and Rubrik prior to choosing Cohesity.

My advice is to set up a Proof of Concept with Cohesity. They are more than accommodating and basically treat you like a licensed customer. Any issues you do encounter get fixed during a PoC, so make sure to document them well because it makes the production implementation of Cohesity dead simple.

Just try it ... and be prepared to like it. Make sure to have a set list of scenarios to test.

Backing up virtual machines on our public and private IaaS platforms. It is also used as an NFS shared secondary storage to virtual machines.

We got rid of not being able to scale our storage, having to constantly add new storage and use windows as a repository doesn't scale above 2TB.

• Scale-out
• Test and dev
• Directly spinning data
• Searching data in VMs for restore and downloading specific files.

Support is good, but some functions are added pretty late, like vCloud Director support. This could speed up adoption for service providers.

We've had no downtime in the time it's been used. Some minor issues that we do get are resolved really quickly with support.

The scale-out capabilities are great.

They are a great help on performance issues and minor bugs.

Veeam, we came upon Cohesity while searching for scale-out storage.

Straightforward, it's almost plug and play.

In-house, we're a service provider.

We resell the product.

The nice thing is there is no further licensing when you purchase the system. All is integrated.

Rubrik.

Take it a go, I think you'll love it.

• Backup target 
• Backup software

Instant recovery of VMs.

• Backups are now much faster restored are much faster, which is a huge improvement over the previous platform.
• Simple, intuitive single pane for all backup/recovery tasks.

Application integration.

Six months.

No issues.

No issues.

No, we already added additional nodes without issues.

They are excellent.

Veeam/Commvault with Data Domain.

The initial setup was very straightforward.

We implemented in-house.

No idea.

It is simple, cost effective, and highly scalable.

Isilon.

We use this to back up our VM environment. We are also using this to store file shares for our customers.

It's allowed us to consolidate various backup solutions into one. This has helped us from paying separate vendors for our past backup solution.

We have found that being able to host file shares and back up our environment in one device is amazing.

• I would say they could work on the update process of the nodes. 
• They could also make it easier to try out beta versions of their software without the need of opening tickets.

• Virtual machines
• Four physical machines
• A lot of SQL databases
• A huge amount of applications and application databases. 
• Mainly backing up locally, then replicating to the cloud, for three months.

• The complex, cumbersome restores are gone.
• It's simple to back up.
• It's completely reliable and easy to restore.
• It has a lightning fast restore.

The spin-up of a VM within a test environment for backup testing along with quick restores.

• Bare metal backups of MS AD
• Microsoft Exchange online mailbox backups would be fantastic.
• Restoring OUs/individual users from the AD would be awesome.

Our company has approximately 1000 virtual servers in many different countries.

• SQL
• Secondary storage 
• Backup window
• Tapeout
• Easy scale out

A robust, verifiable backup with a restore solution, which decreases our backup and has a restore window. 

• Scalability
• Ease of setup and use.

There is the possibility to use it as something else: Secondary storage and a place to clone/test machines.

A little more documentation on standard faults would help, as new features are being released quite often. 

Best customer service in the business. 

The vendor is very agile in changing the product to what the user wants.

Unified backup solution.

We removed multiple backup systems and replaced with Cohesity.

Faster backup and restores, reduced costs of backups.

3 Months

Few bugs in the interface but support resolved quickly.

I had hardware issues with one of the nodes before we went production but Cohesity quickly replaced it.

No

Excellent!

Very good

Yes we did but it could not backup complete environment, multiple systems.

Very straightforward, simple console, I don't need a ton of options to backup data.

We purchased though Intergris (http://thinkintegris.com/); they did a great job providing us this solution.

Since it is storage and software, you will save on costs.

No

The features are still maturing but this solution allows any admin to backup and restore files. The dedupe and compression is very impressive.

Cohesity DataProtect has numerous features, backup only being one of them. The solution's main product involves the data platform and consists of object storage, the file server and hyper convergence storage features. Their focus is right there. So, their backup software has been very helpful in respect of object storage and the file server. These depend on the data platform. 

For the customer, Cohesity DataProtect allows him to have a single solution, ranging from software backup to hardware, all contained within a single contact. 

The solution boasts good retention, as it is global in a single platform and, since they have their own appliance, it is scalable as well. This makes it easier to create a retention from the backup. 

The pricing of the solution could be better, as it is quite high when compared with the competition, Veeam, Veritas and Rubrik. 

The solution offers many features, so my one reservation involves the pricing. 

The solution has a more complex setup than Veritas and Veeam. 

The solution is stable. 

The solution is scalable. 

We do not have experience with technical support, so I am not in a position to guage it. 

We do not do implementation only as concerns the data protection, but must also implement the storage and then the appliance. I consider the implementation of Cohesity DataProtect to be more complex than those of Veritas and Veeam. 

A consultant was needed for the implementation. 

The solution's pricing is quite high, more so than that of its competitors, Veeam, Veritas and Rubrik. 

Veeam, Veritas and Rubrik offer more cost effective solutions than that of Cohesity DataProtect, whose pricing is quite high. 

Veritas and Veeam have easier setups than Cohesity DataProtect. 

Cohesity is still new to Indonesia. 

I rate Cohesity DataProtect as a seven out of ten.