Cohesity DataProtect Reviews

Backing up virtual machines on our public and private IaaS platforms. It is also used as an NFS shared secondary storage to virtual machines.

We got rid of not being able to scale our storage, having to constantly add new storage and use windows as a repository doesn't scale above 2TB.

• Scale-out
• Test and dev
• Directly spinning data
• Searching data in VMs for restore and downloading specific files.

Support is good, but some functions are added pretty late, like vCloud Director support. This could speed up adoption for service providers.

We've had no downtime in the time it's been used. Some minor issues that we do get are resolved really quickly with support.

The scale-out capabilities are great.

They are a great help on performance issues and minor bugs.

Veeam, we came upon Cohesity while searching for scale-out storage.

Straightforward, it's almost plug and play.

In-house, we're a service provider.

We resell the product.

The nice thing is there is no further licensing when you purchase the system. All is integrated.

Rubrik.

Take it a go, I think you'll love it.

• Backup target 
• Backup software

Instant recovery of VMs.

• Backups are now much faster restored are much faster, which is a huge improvement over the previous platform.
• Simple, intuitive single pane for all backup/recovery tasks.

Application integration.

Six months.

No issues.

No issues.

No, we already added additional nodes without issues.

They are excellent.

Veeam/Commvault with Data Domain.

The initial setup was very straightforward.

We implemented in-house.

No idea.

It is simple, cost effective, and highly scalable.

Isilon.

We use this to back up our VM environment. We are also using this to store file shares for our customers.

It's allowed us to consolidate various backup solutions into one. This has helped us from paying separate vendors for our past backup solution.

We have found that being able to host file shares and back up our environment in one device is amazing.

• I would say they could work on the update process of the nodes. 
• They could also make it easier to try out beta versions of their software without the need of opening tickets.

• Virtual machines
• Four physical machines
• A lot of SQL databases
• A huge amount of applications and application databases. 
• Mainly backing up locally, then replicating to the cloud, for three months.

• The complex, cumbersome restores are gone.
• It's simple to back up.
• It's completely reliable and easy to restore.
• It has a lightning fast restore.

The spin-up of a VM within a test environment for backup testing along with quick restores.

• Bare metal backups of MS AD
• Microsoft Exchange online mailbox backups would be fantastic.
• Restoring OUs/individual users from the AD would be awesome.

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.

Unified backup solution.

We removed multiple backup systems and replaced with Cohesity.

Faster backup and restores, reduced costs of backups.

3 Months

Few bugs in the interface but support resolved quickly.

I had hardware issues with one of the nodes before we went production but Cohesity quickly replaced it.

No

Excellent!

Very good

Yes we did but it could not backup complete environment, multiple systems.

Very straightforward, simple console, I don't need a ton of options to backup data.

We purchased though Intergris (http://thinkintegris.com/); they did a great job providing us this solution.

Since it is storage and software, you will save on costs.

No

The features are still maturing but this solution allows any admin to backup and restore files. The dedupe and compression is very impressive.

Cohesity has acted as a perfect secondary storage for storing our archival data, as well as running the non I/O intensive VMs directly on the NFS data stores.

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. Backing up VMs, indexing data, and restoring data can be lightening fast. At the same time, the data compression and dedupe are robust and the best in this category.

• Restoring the backed up VMs directly on vCenter through API integration, which is lightening fast. 
• Integration with cloud storage, like S3 from AWS and Pure Storage.
• The four independent node cluster architecture is redundant. It maintains data integrity and load balancing.

Since it is an evolving product, there are lot of frequent releases which require upgrades to be done every other weekend. 

Sometimes new releases have a few bugs, but they are promptly fixed by the support team. Other than that, it is a fairly stable product.

It is highly scalable and follows a scale out approach. You need a minimum of four nodes to make a cluster.

The support team could do a better job. Sometimes finding the correct person is cumbersome and time consuming. 

We were looking to replace multiple backup solutions for physical servers and VMware virtual machines. Cohesity has been a one stop solution for us. 

The initial setup is fairly simple. 

Support guided us remotely throughout the installation.

I cannot disclose the exact numbers. Compared to the products that we had earlier, Cohesity replaced our primary backup solution. It runs VMs. All our backup mount points are on Cohesity in our environment, and this is at a fraction of the cost. 

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.