Cohesity SpanFS Reviews

Name: Cohesity SpanFS
Brand: Cohesity
Rating: 5.0 (2 reviews)

5.0 out of 5

2 reviews
0% willing to recommend

What is Cohesity SpanFS?

Designed to combine the best of enterprise and cloud stacks, SpanFS exposes industry-standard, globally distributed NFS, SMB and S3 interfaces.

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Cohesity SpanFS is the #9 ranked solution in top File System Software solutions. PeerSpot users give Cohesity SpanFS an average rating of 10.0 out of 10. Cohesity SpanFS is most commonly compared to Nasuni: Cohesity SpanFS vs Nasuni. Cohesity SpanFS is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 57% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a real estate/law firm, accounting for 17% of all views.

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Cohesity SpanFS mindshare

As of August 2025, the mindshare of Cohesity SpanFS in the File System Software category stands at 3.9%, down from 4.6% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It has snapshot capabilities. We take advantage of those."

Room for Improvement

"The only problem is the current performance of the individual nodes. As a sale-out solution with integrated load-balancing functions, performance is in principle not a problem at all. Capacity and performance are linearly scalable over the number of nodes in the cluster. An increase in the performance of the individual nodes in future releases would be desirable."
"Its read performance can be improved. It is just slow in comparison to other file systems, but a lot of it also has to do with the fact that they have a limited number of spindles under each node."

Pricing

"When it comes to pricing, I know the prices because I am also running tenders for customers where I am not offering other solutions. Hence, the prices are pretty competitive."
"I won't talk about specific numbers, but it is a little hard to compare it to other products out there because there is nobody out there that does exactly what they do. If you are just comparing it to another NAS box, it is probably going to look higher, but that's an unfair comparison because it does things that a NAS box can't do."

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Financial Services Firm

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The IO Engine detects random vs. sequential IO profiles, splits the data into chunks, performs deduplication and directs to the most appropriate storage tier.

SpanFS also includes a new Metadata Store based on a consistent, distributed, NoSQL store for fast operations at scale.

SnapTree® provides a distributed meta data structure based on B+ tree concepts. It supports unlimited, frequent snapshots with no performance degradation.

Cohesity SpanFS was previously known as SpanFS.