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."One of the most valuable features is the restore functionality that they offer."
"The solution is stable."
"The dashboard is very easy to use."
"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 minimal downtime for our main customers. These features have significantly improved our recovery time objectives."
"With instant DR failover using SiteContinuity, we are able to keep our files available no matter the situation."
"Converged system. It makes much more sense to have the backup server running on the same hardware as the storage for backup and recovery."
"Cohesity is a cost-effective storage designed for secondary or archival data. It also integrates well with a number of other systems, like VMware, Pure Storage, or AWS with its large array of APIs available to the user."
"Instant recovery options are a big benefit for urgent restores, as we don't need to wait for hours or days for a restore to complete before being able to access the files."
"Restoring and cloning are easy to do."
"The most valuable feature is the RBAC, the Role-Based Access Control. In our managed service, we can have different layers of security."
"It's all together managing both storage and backup, which makes it easier for troubleshooting issues and the automation part of it"
"The product’s most valuable feature is cloning."
"We have been very satisfied with the technical support's help. Their knowledge level is great. For a noncritical question, they will get back to us within a day."
"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."
"It's integrated with VMware vCenter. You can also see the backups there and you can do a restore completely out of vCenter."
"The centralized GUI is the best feature, that there is only one webpage where we can see the states of all the backup jobs. We can see all the tasks that are running and we can quickly see if one fails; if they are running or have any issues. We have all that in one place."
"The solution's dashboard or UI can be enhanced and made more user-friendly than its competitors."
"Quality testing of upgrades should be somewhat improved."
"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."
"Their UI requires a manual refresh. It doesn't seem like it updates itself sometimes when you're moving from screens or waiting for a change to take effect, so you have to manually refresh."
"Cohesity DataProtect can improve in the area of databases. We have had some challenges with both Cohesity and Rubrik being able to effectively back up in a timely manner the SQL Oracle workloads."
"The support team sometimes takes a long time to resolve issues, although, in our experience, these have been specific things like SQL blobs."
"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."
"We have had our share of minor bugs over the past two years and a few bigger ones."
"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."
"It needs to support vSphere 6.7."
"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."
"I want to see a few more features add that will help our team in managing solution better."
"The UI, the User Interface, needs to be improved. It's not as clean or modern as it could be."
"I feel a little bit that during the whole process of putting this software into production we were like a beta program. It was full of bugs... For example, we had a problem with truncating our Exchange log files... It has improved over time."
"The DBAs are comparing it to SMO but it doesn't have a lot of the functionalities that SMO has."
"Since the solution's initial setup is complex, it should make training documents available in the public space."
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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