We performed a comparison between Cohesity DataProtect and Veeam Backup Replication based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Both products received high marks from users. However, Cohesity DataProtect users found deployment to be easier, and consider it to be more affordable than do users of Veeam Backup Replication.
"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."
"This solution is easy to manage."
"We are looking forward to the next release, so we can take advantage of the AHV backup for our Nutanix environment."
"The most valuable aspect for me is that I don't have to deal with media in terms of tapes like our existing system does."
"Cohesity's web-scale architecture enables us to scale up as needed."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"With the ability to stage an entire lifecycle through versioning, integrated with AWS, it has made it possible to protect our corporation from end to end."
"It has a lightning fast restore."
"WAN Accelerator helps tremendously with replicating our data because we have a large chunk of data that gets replicated between our two facilities."
"It's relatively easy to use and the ability to recover in a short period of time has been great."
"With regard to our operational requirements, Veeam is very good because it's so user-friendly."
"What I like most about this solution are the simplicity and the price-performance ratio."
"Veeam's file monitoring capabilities are strong and consistent."
"The product could be improved if they wrote more PowerShell scripts for controlling Veeam."
"The solution is easy to install and very stable."
"The ntegration of physical agents with our cloud connect service is positive."
"The rack mounting instructions did not appear to be correct, but we were able to overcome it."
"Initial setup can be complex if you need to change IP addresses. Hopefully, they improve that in a future release."
"Quality testing of upgrades should be somewhat improved."
"We would love to see direct compatibility with HPE Simplivity, which we also leverage."
"Features I would like to see include a more visible data lifecycle monitoring tab, and an easier to read backup status dashboard."
"The tool could benefit from further improvements in AI features, particularly in areas such as a generative AI chat interface. This feature could help answer queries about the data being protected. One feature that would greatly improve our experience with the product is the ability to identify data redundancies through a central console. This feature would help us reduce storage costs by managing redundant data."
"We are waiting on the AIX agent to be released."
"Reporting is quite limited and not customizable."
"The physical server backups and direct storage connectivity need improvement."
"Veeam Backup & Replication could improve by making it more user-friendly."
"Offering mobile apps that give engineers a global view of his backup regime would be a "nice to have" feature."
"Veeam Backup Replication has agents for Linux, but they are not supporting Cluster Shared Volumes. It would be great to have agents for Linux be cluster-aware, just like the Windows agents. That's the main pain point. In addition, we should be able to handle the automation of Oracle backups from the backup server. We should be able to schedule, control, and deploy them from the backup server rather than relying on scripts and/or the system you are backing up to perform the backup. Currently, we install the plug-in inside Oracle VMs and then use crontabs to handle the task schedule on each machine for scheduling the backups. Veeam Backup Replication should also support the automation of Nutanix backups from the backup server, not from the proxy. The other not so major thing is that they don't support legacy systems because Veeam is a new company. It is not as old as other companies. They don't support physical workloads that are really old, which a major challenge, but they do have a point. Legacy systems should be virtualized, and if they're virtualized, then the backup is not an issue with Veeam, but some customers like the physical setup, and they don't want to have it virtual."
"We have had problems with some jobs. For example, when we have a VM with a large SQL Database, sometimes we cannot adjust the time for transaction logs to back up and overlap time."
"The documentation and communication could be better in Veeam Backup Replication."
"Near-synchronous, better RPO and RTO snapshot-based takes a lot of space and resources."
"The direct SAN backup integration can be perfected by improving the snapshot removal mechanism and process from the storage volumes."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 8th in Backup and Recovery with 67 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews. Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas NetBackup and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Arcserve UDP. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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