Cohesity DataProtect Initial Setup

Giovanni Golinelli. - PeerSpot reviewer
Hybrid IT Architect at Quanture Spa

The deployment depends on the environment. Deploying on VMs is relatively simple. But for most of our customers, we implement physical clusters with at least three configured hosts using the existing model. So, it depends on the setup.

Implementing DataProtect itself wasn't particularly challenging. One key requirement for successful DataProtect deployment is proper network configuration. If the network setup isn't right, you won't achieve optimal performance.

We have developed a service for some of our customers where they implement an appliance or physical cluster of Cohesity at the customer site.

Then, we use cloud clustering to replicate, and even in production, a second copy of the protected data. And in some cases, we have developed some disaster recovery procedures using Cohesity.

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ManiKanta - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer at American Express

We sometimes face issues while deploying the solution, which we can fix with the help of the support team. There are no long pending issues while deploying Cohesity DataProtect.

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RS
Team Leader at Leonardo

The initial setup was straightforward.

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Vishnu Mohan - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Delivery Manager Cloud and DCO at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

The tool's deployment is simple and doesn't take long to complete. 

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Alex Hart - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Storage, Backup & Database Domain at Quilter

The solution's initial setup is very simple. It takes less than a day to get it all configured and working.

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JD
Data Center Manager at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup required some assistance to complete. However, it was not a long drawn-out process.

I rate the initial setup of Cohesity DataProtect a seven out of ten.

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MF
Backup Administrator at Bper Banca Spa

The initial setup is not complex. It takes several months to install from zero because we have to define the logistical points to find space through all the network interfaces and technologies available, and it took us around four to five months.

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BH
Chief Technology Officer at The Collective Group, LLC

The initial setup of the solution is simple.

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Mashood Atitebi - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Core Infrastructure Engineer at Finning International Inc

The tool's deployment is easy. The deployment takes around 30 minutes to complete. 

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Nelson Sendino - PeerSpot reviewer
Coordinator, Network Architecture & Cybersecurity at San Mateo County Office of Education

I wasn't too involved with the initial setup. Some other team members were.

The deployment took a few months. We had a team of four people in place to deploy the solution. One was a network engineer. The other one was a systems analyst. There were also a couple of network analysts.

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PC
Computer Systems Architect at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup was straightforward. Initial deployment took two months.

Our deployment strategy was to do it quickly as we can.

We did an initial POC, then a full POC, and then migrated everything as quick as we could.

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Nelson Sendino - PeerSpot reviewer
Coordinator, Network Architecture & Cybersecurity at San Mateo County Office of Education

As far as I know, the initial setup was pretty straightforward. My team members dealt with all that. I did not directly participate. 

We have a team of five people that can handle maintenance duties such as updates, et cetera. Both users and sysadmins can get into it if they need to. 

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DC
Systems Engineering Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Initial setup is straightforward.

It took one day for each site. We have two sites. We deployed each site in one day for a two day deployment total, and then our overall deployment strategy was to begin ingesting at the VM level and then start focusing on the agent-based deployments to equal an exchange.

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CD
Field CTO at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution has a good interface making the installation straightforward.

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reviewer1649424 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Sky Lakes Medical Center

The setup is simple. We simply had to assign the interfaces an IP, set up our port aggregation, and create the cluster. 

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JS
Infrastructure Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The initial setup was straightforward, as we engaged with the company to help with the deployment. As long as the provided templates are completed and networking is done properly, it should be a smooth ride.

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StewartSJ3 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Setup, with Cohesity's Support, was very straightforward. We had it up and running jobs in a matter of hours.

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it_user849288 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Technician at nuskin

With the help of our local tech, the setup was quite easy. 

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JV
Network Administration Supervisor at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees

Cohesity sent a local sales engineer out and in an afternoon we had it racked, networked, and backing up.

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JS
Adjunct Professor at Southern New Hampshire University

The setup was simple. There was an engineer who was on hand to do all of the work, but I chose to do quite a bit of the work myself instead. From power on to the first backup was about 30 minutes.

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CV
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is really easy.

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FL
Works at Master

The initial setup of this solution was very easy.

Implementation took only a few hours and backups begin the same day it has been physically racked.

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SC
Lead HANA DBA at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

The installation process requires a couple of straightforward connectors to be installed on our servers, and the setup is quite simple. It's a one-time task, and overall, we haven't encountered any issues with the setup.

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EP
Global Infrastructure Architect at Finning International Inc

It wasn't easy, but it also wasn't complicated. We completed the deployment in two or three months.

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YS
Solutions Architect with self employed

The setup process is very straightforward and simple. It doesn't have huge requirements and it is not that complex. 

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CD
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Setting up DataProtect is pretty straightforward.

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reviewer1276815 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administration Supervisor at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup was very straightforward. It took a couple of hours for each cluster at each of our sites.

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it_user829608 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Information Systems at Community Hospital
VA
Responsable de Servicios TI (Comunicaciones, Monitorización, Virtualización y Almacenamiento) at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees

Setting up DataProtect was very easy. With two people, we could deploy it in a couple of weeks. 

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YS
Advisor Architect at a insurance company with 201-500 employees

Setup is pretty simple, especially compared to the product we had before. It was an older legacy product that was much harder to implement. We deployed with the help of an integrator, but we do all the day-to-day maintenance on the product by ourselves.

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it_user819117 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a healthcare company

Initial setup was very straightforward. It can be complex if you need to change IP addresses. Hopefully, they improve that in a future release.

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it_user800988 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Storage Administrator with 10,001+ employees

It was very straightforward.

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it_user624039 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup was very quick and easy. We had an engineer on site to answer any questions that popped up during first-time configuration.

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it_user794526 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a media company with 501-1,000 employees

Initial setup was more complex than Rubrik. Their documentation could be refined. 

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Tim Kovars - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Engineer at Quarles & Brady LLP

It was easy. After it was up and running, it was simple to add a vCenter and start backups.

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NS
Cloud Solution Architect at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution’s initial setup was pretty straightforward.

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CB
Systems Engineer/Systems Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

It wasn't an easy install for us. 

Like I said of our legacy environment, we had an old VMware environment that the latest supported versions of DataProtect would not backup through vCenter. We had to build multiple legacy Cohesity environments to try to get those backups so that legacy VMware environments could work. It probably took five or six tries before we finally said, "Screw it, we'll upgrade the VMware environment". We were finally able to do it because we were able to get some licensing from another department that they were no longer using. Otherwise, we would still be stuck on legacy — with Cohesity backing up legacy VMware. 

As always, there was a learning curve that comes with learning a new product, and trying to get our DBA's involved in SQL backsups, etc. That's something that they've not really been involved with in the past with Commvault — we always managed that. There was some learning curve for them as well.

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reviewer1271712 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Setup can be a little tricky, but support is there to walk you through it at every step.

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reviewer958335 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works with 201-500 employees

Fairly straightforward, especially with a VAR assistance.

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NP
Alliance Manager at Berca Hardaya Perkasa

We do not do implementation only as concerns the data protection, but must also implement the storage and then the appliance. I consider the implementation of Cohesity DataProtect to be more complex than those of Veritas and Veeam. 

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reviewer1036158 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Very easy to do, not much documentation to read, and really easy to work with. Everything is logical, and you can easily do what you want to do.

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reviewer873789 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a educational organization with 5,001-10,000 employees

The setup was fairly simple.

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it_user683748 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Administrative & Residential Information Technology at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

Very much so.

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reviewer1280316 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Infrastructure Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

Setup of both the PoC and physical cluster were very simple. The most complex part of the physical setup was finding someone to help me lift it into the rack!

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reviewer966867 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineer

Straightforward, it's almost plug and play.

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it_user771306 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Technical Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup was very straightforward.

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it_user684759 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Information Services Infrastructure Team at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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

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Panav D Sharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Engineer II at Cvent

The initial setup is fairly simple. 

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it_user767400 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It was very straightforward. I had previously supplied the vendor with a list of IPs and labels. It was about one hour from racking to backing up.

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it_user787371 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systemmanager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

It was straightforward and easy.

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it_user784479 - PeerSpot reviewer
Datacenter Management at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Very simple and straigtforward setup.

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PZ
Senior Information Technology Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Straightforward.

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Buyer's Guide
Cohesity DataProtect
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Cohesity DataProtect. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.