Cohesity DataProtect vs Veeam Agent for Linux [EOL] comparison

Cohesity and Veeam Software are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Additionally, 97% of Cohesity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of Veeam Software users who would recommend it.

Cohesity DataProtect

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97% willing to recommend

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86% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and Veeam Agent for Linux [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Cohesity DataProtect

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (10th), Cloud Backup (7th)

Veeam Agent for Linux [EOL]

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Featured Reviews

Giovanni Golinelli.

Hybrid IT Architect at Quanture Spa

Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support

The deployment depends on the environment. Deploying on VMs is relatively simple. But for most of our customers, we implement physical clusters with at least three configured hosts using the existing model. So, it depends on the setup. Implementing DataProtect itself wasn't particularly challenging. One key requirement for successful DataProtect deployment is proper network configuration. If the network setup isn't right, you won't achieve optimal performance. We have developed a service for some of our customers where they implement an appliance or physical cluster of Cohesity at the customer site. Then, we use cloud clustering to replicate, and even in production, a second copy of the protected data. And in some cases, we have developed some disaster recovery procedures using Cohesity.

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David Villota

EMEA Hosting Engineer at Yanfeng Automotive

Reliable and issue-free with a helpful onboarding wizard

The solution has been installed on Linux machines. The solution is issue-free. We are happy with it. The solution has been stable and reliable. It is scalable. My understanding the setup is pretty straightforward and that the onboarding wizard is pretty easy to follow. I've never had to…

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable aspect for me is that I don't have to deal with media in terms of tapes like our existing system does."

"Cohesity customer service is the best that I have ever used. They are extremely fast in responding to cases, fixed all issues, and answered every question in a very timely manner."

"It makes our administrators' lives much easier to combine backup, archiving, and services like hosting file shares in one central system with only one user interface."

"We like that we can use production data to run intensive reports that would otherwise bog down the production server."

"The initial setup is easy."

"Cohesity is extremely easy to use and intuitive."

"We are looking forward to the next release, so we can take advantage of the AHV backup for our Nutanix environment."

"The restores are easy to do and have made it so that we can incorporate restores into our troubleshooting processes."

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"The most valuable feature is the instant restore option."

"It's simple to use."

"The solution is very user-friendly and has an easy to use interface. We can manage it easily. It allows for a simple backup."

"The Veeam Backup and Replication Suite is very user-friendly."

"It is scalable."

"What I found most valuable in Veeam Agent for Linux is that it can unify machines and even simplify management."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its integration with Veeam Backup & Replication console."

"Veeam has a "next, next, finish" installer, and the overall deployment is straightforward. The deployment is easy because Veeam is compatible with all our VMware services and VMs. Veeam Backup and Veeam ONE are integrated into vCenter or vSphere site deployments, so we don't need to deploy each server one by one."

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Cons

"In terms of what could be improved, it just needs some maturity."

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

"The one area where we would like to see additional improvements is with reporting. There are very granular reports from each grid. There are also some built-in reports within Helios (SAS Management Console) that offers basic reporting. However, for complex, large-enterprise environments, a more robust reporting engine that supports detailed audit reporting and enhanced ad hoc reports would be welcome."

"Cohesity cluster upgrades have not been as easy as a single button click. They are a manual process that requires upgrading each node into a cluster individually."

"This solution is only compatible with a limited number of storage arrays, including Pure and Cisco Hyperflex."

"For Oracle DBs, we have observed a few bugs. This can be done better."

"It would be great to add SQL Object Level restore, so user objects, tables, etc. can be restored without having to restore the entire DB."

"Quality testing of upgrades should be somewhat improved."

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"They could be more customer-friendly."

"One problem in Veeam Agent for Linux is that you can't use your license for all your machines because you don't have a virtual machine, so if you're going to add machines and scale, you'd need to pay extra."

"The integration needs improvement."

"The price of Veeam Agent for Linux could be reduced."

"Technical support could be improved."

"The pricing could be lowered if possible."

"There is a compatibility issue with HCI."

"In terms of the physical environment, I'd like them to integrate it with other kinds of solutions. We don't just work with Microsoft or Linux, but other kinds of infrastructure data as well."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"With respect to pricing, make sure that you look at both Rubrik and Cohesity as they are very similar and are quite competitive."

"We purchased support from Cohesity to ensure that should we face an issue, we don't have to deal with different service providers."

"If SQL is in heavy use at your location, I would highly recommend narrowing your PoC testing to Cohesity and Rubrik. They will be competitive on pricing with each other, so really put them through the paces."

"My advice is to always negotiate for better pricing."

"The tool's pricing is average."

"I expect the system to probably pay off within the first two years."

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

"The solution's pricing is in the mid-range, where it's neither costly nor cheap."

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"Veeam Agent is one of the cheapest products in the market."

"Licensing costs are monthly."

"Licensing costs are $300,000 USD yearly, and we pay for three years at a time."

"It's a subscription based license, which is started on a yearly basis. Currently the licensing is split between three editions: standard, enterprise, and enterprise plus. As long as you check the comparison between the additions and make sure that you have what you need, there are no extra costs with Veeam."

"We have purchased a license to use Veeam Agent for Linux and the additional support. The overall cost of Veeam Agent for Linux is expensive."

"There's the principal license for Veeam Agent for Linux, and then you need to buy additional licenses for your machines."

"Price-wise it's good."

"The costing is very competitive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

44%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

16%

Photography Company

11%

Real Estate/Law Firm

10%

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By reviewers

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Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cohesity DataProtect?

Several features enable us to perform fast recovery, such as instant fast recovery. All our virtual machines protected with the product can be quickly restored to another healthy environment with m...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cohesity DataProtect?

Typically on-premises nodes/clusters are deployed for primary backup (to enable instant mass restore) so price will be dependent on chosen OEM and capacity required. MSPs like us utilise PPU licens...

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What needs improvement with Cohesity DataProtect?

Cohesity DataProtect needs to improve its reporting capabilities.

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What do you like most about Veeam Agent for Linux?

The most valuable feature of the solution is its integration with Veeam Backup & Replication console.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veeam Agent for Linux?

We have to pay a license fee for every system we use. We pay for licenses annually. Veeam Agent is one of the cheapest products in the market. I would rate the solution’s pricing a two out of ten. ...

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What needs improvement with Veeam Agent for Linux?

More Linux systems should be made compatible with the solution.

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Overview

What is Cohesity DataProtect?

Cohesity DataProtect is a top-level, sophisticated, software-defined backup and recovery solution created for cloud environments. Cohesity DataProtect is made to hyperscale and is one the most thorough policy-based protection solutions available on the market today.

Cohesity DataProtect melds multiple-point products into a single software that is able to be deployed as on-premise or consumed as a service.

Top Features:

Hyperscale made easy: Cohesity DataProtect improves data protection by doing away with the need for backup silos and administers backup and recovery with a single user-friendly, easy-to-understand interface. Cohesity DataProtect provides extensive 24/7 enterprise-class protection for a large, varying set of sources, including virtual and physical servers, NAS and SaaS workloads, relational and distributed databases, and traditional and containerized applications.

Super fast recovery: Cohesity DataProtect offers near-zero recovery point objectives (RPOs) and near-instant recovery time objectives (RTOs) to satisfy your business service-level agreements (SLAs). Using Cohesity Helios’ unified data plane and control plane you can immediately search and recover data on any Cohesity cluster, located anywhere. DataProtect distinctively minimizes downtime by immediately mass restoring any amount of virtual machines (VMs) to any point in time, and lowers data protection costs by as much as 70% or more.

Backup as a Service: Feel free to take advantage of the elasticity of the public cloud and the cost-effective value of Cohesity DataProtect when delivered as a service. When you choose an OPEX option, you can eliminate the need for on-premises hardware. There is a SaaS option that will allow you to very simply configure your backup workloads and immediately begin protecting your vital all-important data and applications.

It’s as easy as: sign-up, connect, and protect!

Ransomware protection: Cohesity DataProtect offers stellar recovery at scale. The solution is so intuitive, it has machine learning-based anomaly detection to stop incidents before they happen. Cohesity DataProtection can provide immutable backups, Datalock write once, read many (WORM), encryption, and role-based access control (RBAC).

Cohesity DataProtect integrates well with many of today’s top solutions, including, but not limited to:

Hypervisors: VMware vSphere (5.5 and later), Microsoft Hyper-V (2019, 2016, 2012 R2), Nutanix AHV and RHeV

Kubernetes-based data and application state

Cloud: AWS EC2, Amazon RDS, Azure VM, and Google Compute

Physical: Windows, Linux(RHEL, CentOS, OEL, Debian, Ubuntu), AIX (7.x), and Solaris

Databases: Oracle (11g R2, 12c), Oracle RAC and SQL (2008 or later)

Distributed Databases (NoSQL and Hadoop): MongoDB, CouchbaseDB, Apache, Cassandra, Cloudera, and Hortonworks.

Bare Machine Recovery: Windows and Linux

Applications: MS Exchange (2010 SP3 or later), MSFT Active Directory, Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Teams, Groups), SalesForce (SFDC), and SAP HANA

Primary storage: Pure FlashArray, HPE Nimble, and Cisco Hyperflex

NAS: Pure FlashBlade, NetApp, Isilon, IBM GPFS, Google EFS, Elastifile, and generic solutions*

Reviews from Real Users

One reviewer, who is head of IT infrastructure at Kampmann says, “Cohesity really is a Next-Gen Data Management Software,” and goes on to indicate that Cohesity “works flawlessly with easy replication of backups and numerous supported backup sources.”

Another user, who is a senior network engineer at a legal firm, relates that "Cohesity is a robust and feature-rich solution"

Cohesity

Veeam Agent for Linux is a simple backup agent that’s designed to ensure the Availability of your Linux installations, both on‑premises and in the public cloud. Veeam Agent for Linux’s built‑in integration with Veeam Backup & Replication allows you to leverage your Veeam backup repositories and get your on‑premises backups off site.

https://www.veeam.com/linux-cloud-server-backup-agent.html

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Sample Customers

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ContinuitySA, Industrial Scientific

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