Cohesity DataProtect Reviews

Cohesity has acted as a perfect secondary storage for storing our archival data, as well as running the non I/O intensive VMs directly on the NFS data stores.

Cohesity is a cost-effective storage designed for secondary or archival data. It also integrates well with a number of other systems, like VMware, Pure Storage, or AWS with its large array of APIs available to the user. Backing up VMs, indexing data, and restoring data can be lightening fast. At the same time, the data compression and dedupe are robust and the best in this category.

• Restoring the backed up VMs directly on vCenter through API integration, which is lightening fast. 
• Integration with cloud storage, like S3 from AWS and Pure Storage.
• The four independent node cluster architecture is redundant. It maintains data integrity and load balancing.

Since it is an evolving product, there are lot of frequent releases which require upgrades to be done every other weekend. 

Sometimes new releases have a few bugs, but they are promptly fixed by the support team. Other than that, it is a fairly stable product.

It is highly scalable and follows a scale out approach. You need a minimum of four nodes to make a cluster.

The support team could do a better job. Sometimes finding the correct person is cumbersome and time consuming. 

We were looking to replace multiple backup solutions for physical servers and VMware virtual machines. Cohesity has been a one stop solution for us. 

The initial setup is fairly simple. 

Support guided us remotely throughout the installation.

I cannot disclose the exact numbers. Compared to the products that we had earlier, Cohesity replaced our primary backup solution. It runs VMs. All our backup mount points are on Cohesity in our environment, and this is at a fraction of the cost. 

Our firm is using it as our primary backup and restore solution. Not only do we use it to backup both VMs and physical servers, we also use it to restore them along with mounting volumes to do email/Exchange type restores.

Cohesity has made the pain of doing restores disappear with the ability to open recovery and select files and folders, then have the ability to type in the file or document name and have it show up. This is amazing! This cuts the restore time by 75%.

Cohesity also has very simple reports to help you stay in the know of which servers are being backed up or not.

Cohesity has simplified backups and has cut our costs tremendously.

I have found that the speed of restores, especially files and folders, are extremely fast. This bodes well for us, and our end users are always amazed at how fast you can get them their files.

This is just a huge time saver.

At times, you may click the wrong server or click too fast and accidentally restore a cluster of servers. It would be very helpful to have a cancel option under restores. I have spoken with the engineers at Cohesity and this should be rolled out with the next release.

• The UI
• How easy it is to set up backups and restore data.

It has greatly simplified backups and recovery for our organization.

Better cluster support.

Since December 2016.

No, the deployment was flawless.

The stability has been perfect.

We have not done any scaling yet.

Customer Service:

Customer support is excellent.

Technical Support:

Technical support for the product has been very good.

Yes, we needed an easier virtual backup and recovery solution.

It was very straightforward. I had previously supplied the vendor with a list of IPs and labels. It was about one hour from racking to backing up.

The sales engineer (SE) came out and worked with us. His level of expertise is top notch.

The cost is good compared to other solutions. There should be no setup cost as the SE can work with you to install very quickly.

Yes, we evaluated Rubrik and Veeam. Both are very fine products.

Our primary use case for this solution was as a backup and recovery solution, with the ability to handle VMware and a small subset of physical servers.  

We have a rapidly expanding data set that our previous backup solution could not handle and the upgrade path was a complete redesign of hardware and when that solution maxed out, then it was the same over and over again. The biggest attraction to start looking at Cohesity was being able to scale up with ease. After discussing the option and features, it was clear that Cohesity is made to handle things quickly, simply, and with ease. 

Overall, the simplicity of the solution and the support behind implementation, training, and continued support. The implementation and training are all done through the sales engineer, which provides for a seamless and great experience when it comes to starting with a new vendor. 

The one drawback of this quick innovation is that their units were shipped with outdated firmware, but this was quickly remedied, and they have made operational changes to reduce the likelihood of sending outdated firmware again.

• VM backup and restore 
• Physical server backup and restore
• File restoring
• Cloning of VMs for test and dev
• File sharing, like NFS

Old backup solution: Full restore of mission critical systems took around one day.

Cohesity does this process in under one hour.

It offers an easy, quick backup and restore of files and VMs. Also, the "Google-like " search for files is awesome.

The administration of the Cohesity is easy.

Replication between two clusters should be included in the next few releases. There are many features which will be added in the next few releases.

No.

No.

The support is awesome. They are very fast, competent and friendly.

Yes IBM TSM. We switched because of licence costs and the old fashioned style of making backups in the virtual environment with an agent-based tool.

It was straightforward and easy.

It was done by a vendor team with great Skills

Veeam and VMware VDP.

The primary use case for the solution is VM backup/restore, physical server backup, and file restore. Also, clone VMs for test and dev environments and file sharing.

The absolutely top feature is the easy and fast backup and restore of VMs. It extremely reduces the effort in daily backup and restore tasks. Leading to no more effort for administration of a complex backed up and restored infrastructure.

• Restore of a mission critical host with legacy backup solution: minimum one day.
• Restore of a mission critical host with Cohesity: less than 1 hour.

Replication between two Cohesity clusters should be be improved in the next releases. Some workflows in the GUI should also be improved within next releases. Support for more vendors (databases) should also be delivered within the next releases.

No.

No.

Superior!

Very simple and straigtforward setup.

A vendor team did the implementation. They had a great level of expertise.

Veeam Backup and Replication.

Backup tasks and test development environment.

Speed and functionality.

Mature at a good pace.

About six months.

No.

No.

No.

10 out of 10.

10 out of 10.

We were looking for a robust solution that gives us scalability and recovery.

Straightforward.