We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and NetApp SnapCenter based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We are saving valuable datacenter rack space, which is critical as we evaluate co-location options."
"It's completely reliable and easy to restore."
"The most valuable features of Cohesity DataProtect are SpanFS and the handling of hybrid workloads."
"The most valuable features are the rapid VM restores and the ability to quickly find files and download them directly to my desktop so that I can put them where I need them to be."
"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."
"It works well with backup virtual machines and SQL services we have been using."
"Instant volume mount and the SpanFS filesystem itself, which has great dedupe and compression across all of our backups."
"It offers an easy, quick backup and restore of files and VMs. Also, the "Google-like " search for files is awesome."
"It has greatly improved our DR activity."
"The way that it interconnects with VMware is really handy, because you can go right into your vSphere client, where you spend a lot of the day anyway, right-click on one of the VMs where you have backups running for however long, and you can restore either some files or restore the entire thing."
"It's very helpful because SnapCenter is already integrated with VMware Snapshot, so it's very easy to use."
"It has very fast backup and can handle a huge amount of data. It also enables really fast recovery."
"I like the instant backups and recovery feature that SnapCenter provides within NetApp storage systems."
"The main advantage is its fast backup and restore."
"It's a centralized, easy-to-use solution empowering RBAC management, monitoring, notifications, extensive logging, and backup schedules for standalone as well as groups of the same types of environments. The cloning capabilities accelerate development."
"The reporting feature has been particularly beneficial to upper management... When you do manual backups, you do not get the benefit of seeing successes and failures and how often you have to do restores. With SnapCenter, you get all of that."
"We have had our share of minor bugs over the past two years and a few bigger ones."
"The product is still young and is continually improving. There have been a couple of buggy releases in the software that have caused us minor issues, so possibly some better QA before releasing would prove to be useful. We have also been inquiring about new app and functionality via the Marketplace that was teased months back but has yet to come to fruition."
"Since it is an evolving product, there are lot of frequent releases which require upgrades to be done every other weekend."
"I'd like to be able to pause a backup while it's running and have it resume when I tell it to resume."
"I think Cohesity could add more platform support. For example, they could improve integration with DB2 or make the integration S3 object storage a little tighter. Some of that stuff could use some work, but overall, it's a relatively comprehensive platform."
"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."
"The platform has certain limitations, mostly stemming from the restrictions imposed by the VMware API and some other factors. One area where there is room for improvement is the tracking of replicated copies, especially in the context of remote archive duplication."
"A little more documentation on standard faults would help, as new features are being released quite often."
"Reporting of the jobs could be better."
"The product lags in terms of availability."
"I have an issue with SnapCenter because sometimes a VM cannot be backed up... The way SnapCenter works is that it makes a backup of all the VMs and then it removes all the old backups. If one VM cannot be backed up for some reason, it has already created a new backup for all the VMs but it cannot remove the old backups. It ends up creating so many backups in VMware and it will cause a performance problem if the condition is not fixed."
"There is one area that needs improvement and that's in the alerting. When you set up your SMTP alerts, it only has - and I don't understand why - the ability to send an anonymous SMTP. It doesn't do basic authentication, which frustrated me for a while until I figured out that I'm not missing something. It's just not there."
"We have experience some difficulties with our current support. We are engaging in engineering level support because some of our problems are more technical."
"The documentation could be a little bit better so that we could handle more of the troubleshooting ourselves, rather than having to go through support."
"It needs to support vSphere 6.7."
"What I did witness lately are issues with some Microsoft KBs, the updates. But it happened only once, and not on a major platform, it was on a small one."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 8th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, NetApp Cloud Backup, Veritas NetBackup and Delphix. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. NetApp SnapCenter report.
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