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."Instant volume mount and the SpanFS filesystem itself, which has great dedupe and compression across all of our backups."
"The customer service and support are fast and professional."
"We are looking forward to the next release, so we can take advantage of the AHV backup for our Nutanix environment."
"It's completely reliable and easy to restore."
"Cohesity's web-scale architecture enables us to scale up as needed."
"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."
"The dashboard is very rich and provides details needed for a moderator."
"The most valuable features of Cohesity DataProtect are SpanFS and the handling of hybrid workloads."
"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."
"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 allows us to easily take a Snapshot and use it with any backup tools. We can also take Snapshots on the application side. We can also take Snapshots on the application side. If we want to restore an SAP or an Oracle machine, a normal Snapshot won't do it, but we can do so with SnapCenter."
"It has greatly improved our DR activity."
"The product’s most valuable feature is cloning."
"The most valuable feature is that it's centralized. In the old SnapManager days, we had software for each server. Now, with a centralized system, we're able to manage all systems remotely, and all agents remotely, and update them remotely. That's a huge benefit for us."
"It's very helpful because SnapCenter is already integrated with VMware Snapshot, so it's very easy to use."
"Being able to add everything in as resource groups is a valuable feature... Having all the SQL servers put into specific buckets, based on their year of release - 2008, 2012, 2014 - allows us to get almost immediate backups that are easily seen and reported on."
"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."
"In terms of the product itself, there have been a handful of patches that have had to be applied outside of the GUI via the command line. It's very straightforward and easy and in the same redundant fashion, but not quite as simple as one or two clicks. I'm hoping that will decrease going forward."
"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."
"Quality testing of upgrades should be somewhat improved."
"I would like to see Microsoft Exchange DAG supported as soon as possible."
"It would be great to add SQL Object Level restore, so user objects, tables, etc. can be restored without having to restore the entire DB."
"Microsoft Exchange online mailbox backups would be fantastic."
"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."
"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."
"Groups might be helpful for each site or data center so that we know a given data center has these resources while another data center has those resources. It's not always easy to group hosts by type."
"When you have role-based access, for example, it's a bit of a problem that the person who creates the backup job is the owner of it. We are struggling a bit with this, that everyone has the same view and the same permissions in there."
"I'm waiting for SnapCenter for hybrid solutions. Right now, we only have SnapManager for hybrid. I need agents for that. People are looking to install SnapCenter in a SQL environment, but where they're running SQL on Hyper-V and using virtual files. Currently, we don't have support for hybrid."
"We would like to see more granular repording and reporting in bigger sets available in SnapCenter."
"Plugins should be developed in shorter times. Performance generally could be a little bit faster."
"I would like to see replication support between systems. Right now, it's kind of limited. We manage them separately from the storage system interface, not from SnapCenter. It would be nice if it was integrated into SnapCenter."
"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."
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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