Cohesity DataProtect Reviews

We are using this solution for the DataProtect feature in our VMware environment. It is also protecting SQL and Exchange 2013 servers.

We have two clusters that replicate to each other; this process is also very fast.

This solution has given us a three-fold performance increase.

The most valuable feature is the instant mass restore of VMs. I am able to restore VMs in a few minutes.

The other great thing is the Google search, as it helps a lot and accelerates the restore process.

Apps are very cool too!!

The Cloud Archives are very easy to configure. We are using AWS Glacier.

Fully hydrated Snapshots give you the ability to do incremental forever.

The GUI is simple and very responsive.

This solution is easy to manage. Just a quick look to the dashboard every morning and that's it. You will spend ten minutes, max, of your day on Cohesity.

Being able to take a backup of OneDrive and Sharepoint in Office 365 would be great. It is in the Roadmap, but we would like to see it in the next release of this solution.

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

The cloud management solution needs a little more development.  Now it is really like the same dashboard than the one you are using locally.  They put some AI in the prediction  of when you will be out of space but I would appreciate more AI to discover malware (but is in the road map for version 6.4 I think)  .

This is a stable solution. It is running by itself.

The scalability of this solution is impressive.

Technical support for this solution is excellent.

Our previous solution which was Quest Rapid Recovery. We switched because of the performance, which is three times better with Cohesity.

The initial setup of this solution was very easy.

Implementation took only a few hours and backups begin the same day it has been physically racked.

We were assisted by the vendor team. The knew what they were doing!

In a few hours, the solution was in production.

Prior to choosing this solution, we evaluated Rubrik and Commvault.

The software is running by itself! It was a very great acquisition for us.

Backing up of our virtual environment (VMware) by replacing our current backup software that is more of an old fashion solution: not very scalable and not really well designed for multitenancy.

I was surprised to see how well the Cohesity appliances performed and how easy the setup was. After a couple of hours, the cluster was up, and we were able to take backup of our VMware infrastructure. After that, I tested a few backups and restores, and everything was running smoothly.

The product is easy to put in place, all backups are done very quickly, and it's easy to perform restores. What I prefer in the product is its simplicity. No useless settings to define, everything is ready just after the initial setup.

I also had the opportunity to deploy new nodes and upgrade the cluster; everything is well thought and is running very well. 

Currently, the product is lacking some features like BMR and backup for the cluster, but I think these are things that would be added in a few months.

So far so good, I've never had any major issue, and deployment of the cluster was really easy.

The solution is highly scalable.

So far so good, a few little issues, nothing dramatic but support was able to help.

Their support site already contains a lot of information where most of the answers you might have can be found.

The solution we had before was not very reliable, not scalable, and the security was poor.

Very easy to do, not much documentation to read, and really easy to work with. Everything is logical, and you can easily do what you want to do.

One Cohesity team came during the POC, but it was really easy. So as a test, I also reinstall the cluster myself very quickly when all requirements are met.

Pricing is fair for what the product does, compared to our previous solution, it's even cheaper.

We will also save a lot of money on the support as we had a lot of issues with the previous product.

We also checked Commvault and Rubrik.

Commvault was also a very complete solution but much more difficult to put in place. Also, the lack of hyperconvergence on the storage side was a blocking factor.

Rubrik was very similar to Cohesity, but we liked in Cohesity the NAS, TEST/DEV and WORM options that allow us to use it for our archives.

Cohesity offers the possibility to do a free POC, so if you have any doubt, try it, and I am sure you will see a lot of their advantages.

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.

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.

Secure backup solutions that can replicate off-site to a variety of secondary storage solutions, including other Cohesity clusters.

We have quick, reliable, verifiable backups that replicate off-site. The system is easy to administer and troubleshoot. Support is quick to respond and helpful. We used to have Avamar, and they were none of those things.

• Replication
• Easy SQL and VM restores
• Clones for the development environment
• I can do fewer full SQL backups because the retires will auto replay the log file backups for me.
• Full SQL backups essentials happen every hour, but they are a combo of full and log backups, and restore takes no longer because of auto log replays. 
• VM backups are quick as are restores.
• Google cloud archival was easy to set up.
• The Google project side was more difficult than setting up an archive. 
• Replication to other Cohesity clusters is a breeze.

Navigation is sometimes a challenge from the aspect of drilling down into details which isn’t normally needed.

We utilize Cohesity as our backup solution, it provides tiered backup layers of our VMware and physical environment as well as replaces tape storage for archival uses.

We no longer need to use tape storage, which saves us many hours of effort managing them. Additionally, we have a very responsive environment for recoveries and test/dev.

We love the near-instant recovery windows, as well as the ability to sync our latest backups to amazon web services for offsite DR.

We don't love the Exchange integration, it works fine but requires a third-party application called Kroll. We'd rather have a built-in solution to manage Exchange messages/DB level restores such as what Veeam provides.

It's relatively new, but it's growing rapidly, and their support team has been excellent when we've needed them.

Excellent scalability, just add more nodes.

Extremely fast response both to email and phone, very knowledgeable.

We've used multiple solutions in the past, most recently Veeam for VMware backup and doing long-term archiving to tape. We liked the built-in dedupe/compression features of Cohesity, the near-instant recovery, and the cloud archival options.

Fairly straightforward, especially with a VAR assistance.

VAR and a Cohesity rep.

It's not cheap, but you get what you pay for, and it is really an all-in-one solution.

ExaGrid and sticking with Veeam.

• 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.

We were backing up about 160 TB to tape per week. We are still moving over to Cohesity, however, we will not have the need to have the hardware related to tapes next year. Also, the money we spend on new versions of tapes is not going towards more clusters. In Cohesity, my backups are running faster and I have more frequent crash consistent data. 

Cohesity will save us money, time, and manpower. We will have quick redundancy to AWS for our Cohesity node. I am new to backups and I have been able to quickly learn the basics in the tool. 

This tool is very straightforward and clean. The menus are not over complicated or cluttered. I have very little experience with backups, but Cohesity has made it simple to learn the basics. There are also more complex integrations and programming that can be done if desired.

Cohesity is working on this, however, I would like to see a more expanded KB section. They have created a few videos also, more would be great. Their documentation is also currently being expanded.

We chose to go bleeding edge with the 6.0.0a release. We have encountered a few cluster crashes because of indexing on XFS file systems this should be fixed in 6.1.0

Not yet. 

So far support has been amazing. 

We used NetBackup. We are tired of using tapes and Cohesity has the features that we're interested in.

With the help of our local tech, the setup was quite easy. 

We used our local Cohesity sales and tech team. 

During your implementation stage, make sure you have a good Cohesity rep. Ours had completed over 200 implementations. He was very knowledgeable.

Rubrik was the main tool we looked at. 

At this time I don't, as I learn more I will update my review.