Cohesity DataProtect Reviews

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.

It is used to backup our VM environment plus the few physical servers we still have. 

It is also used to replicate our backups offsite. We have used it several times to spin up a test environment. Cohesity makes it easy to test backups to ensure that they are valid.

It has allowed us to focus on other aspects in IT. No longer does it take several hours to backup a VM or troubleshoot a backup issue.

The dashboard is very easy to use. 

It is also very easy to determine which VMs are being backed up and which ones aren't. This is helpful to make sure nothing is being missed.

We are waiting on the AIX agent to be released. We are also waiting for SQL Clustering to go from testing to live.

Support has been great. The response time has been very quick. I have even received responses on the weekend.

We used EMC Data Domain and NetWorker. We switched because of cost, but also because of how hard it is to use EMC products. We do not need separate VMs with Cohesity to back up.

Initial setup was very straightforward. It can be complex if you need to change IP addresses. Hopefully, they improve that in a future release.

We implemented with a Cohesity engineer.

Cohesity came in at the best price. Setup was included and done in half a day.

We evaluated Rubrik as well as Veeam. 

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.

• On-site disaster recovery
• Cloud disaster recovery
• Test and dev

Cohesity gives us unparalleled features. 

Instead of four different solutions for protecting VMs, physical servers, SQL, and NAS, we now have one solution with Cohesity that is lightning fast and has amazing features.

SQL backup and recovery is our favorite feature.

We use it for test and dev as well, so we can run test scripts on production data. We also like that we can use production data to run intensive reports that would otherwise bog down the production server.

I can't wait for native bare metal recovery. It would also be great to add SQL Object Level restore, so user objects, tables, etc. can be restored without having to restore the entire DB.

There were some initial issues with network setup and discovery. Also, registering MSSQL agents came up with a few errors that I had to work with support on.

No issues with scalability. Adding space or performance is as simple as adding a node to the block.

Customer service is amazing. Replies within the hour and resolution usually within four to six hours. Some conversations with engineering have taken up to 24 hours.

• VMware Data Protection
• CrashPlan
• Windows Backup
• Local MSSQL backups

Initial setup was more complex than Rubrik. Their documentation could be refined. 

Implemented in-house, worked directly with Cohesity.

The ROI is huge. Not really measurable at this point, but the price of the unit was a fraction of what a couple hours of downtime could result in.

Licensing is per node and per protected terabyte. You will also pay 10-15% annually for support.

We did extensive testing with four different competitive vendors.

• Infrascale
• Unitrends
• Rubrik

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.

Primary backup of our VMware environment with archiving to the cloud. By archiving to the cloud, we can cut out the need to purchase additional hardware for replication at our DR site.

Cohesity will reduce the complexity of our backup and recovery system. Our current system requires us to set up and maintain many proxy servers to facilitate the backups. Cohesity does not need this and out performs our current system.

Converged system. It makes much more sense to have the backup server running on the same hardware as the storage for backup and recovery. This reduces the complexity of the environment and ensures that it just works.

Add the ability to delete View Boxes and External Targets in the GUI. Currently, once you setup a View Box or External Target, there is no way to remove them (if you set these up for testing, for instance).

No issues.

No issues.

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.

Yes, we did. Cohesity out performs our old system at a reduced cost as well.

It was very straightforward.

Vendor team. The vendor's expertise was excellent. They included all the knowledge transfer that we needed to begin using the unit.

Not sure.

Setup was extremely easy from racking to backing up was about one hour.

Yes, we also evaluated Rubrik.

• 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.

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.

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.