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."The dashboard is very easy to use."
"Instant volume mount and the SpanFS filesystem itself, which has great dedupe and compression across all of our backups."
"We are looking forward to the next release, so we can take advantage of the AHV backup for our Nutanix environment."
"The solution is stable."
"The spin-up of a VM within a test environment for backup testing along with quick restores."
"The system automatically takes down the nodes one at a time and performs the upgrade and brings the node back up before proceeding to the next. Upgrades can now be done at any time with a high level of confidence."
"The initial setup is easy."
"We are happy with the support provided by Cohesity for the issues we've come across."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The backup features are the most valuable because they allow the DBAs to replace SnapManager for Oracle (SMO), which is going away, and to do cloning as well. We can also clone to different servers and have the actual backup clone mounted on different servers. And we can split easily too."
"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."
"It has greatly improved our DR activity."
"Most banks and financial institutions use the solution."
"The reporting feature has been particularly beneficial to upper management... When you do manual backups, you do not get the benefit of seeing successes and failures and how often you have to do restores. With SnapCenter, you get all of that."
"The Exchange plugin is the most valuable because we have a lot of customers that use SnapManager Exchange and have to migrate to SnapCenter."
"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."
"Better documentation is needed because the lack of information has necessitated having our team depend more heavily on Cohesity support."
"If someone were to change an admin account password, I would like an alert raised for that, which is not available at the moment."
"A little more documentation on standard faults would help, as new features are being released quite often."
"Features I would like to see include a more visible data lifecycle monitoring tab, and an easier to read backup status dashboard."
"The product is still young and is continually improving. There have been a couple of buggy releases in the software that have caused us minor issues, so possibly some better QA before releasing would prove to be useful. We have also been inquiring about new app and functionality via the Marketplace that was teased months back but has yet to come to fruition."
"Since it is an evolving product, there are lot of frequent releases which require upgrades to be done every other weekend."
"Cohesity DataProtect takes hours to restore a single file, even a small one."
"Quality testing of upgrades should be somewhat improved."
"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."
"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."
"Plugins should be developed in shorter times. Performance generally could be a little bit faster."
"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."
"The Dashboard view needs to be more compressed with better ease of access and drill-down features. They should also reinstate Linux filesystem backups of storage volumes (which existed in the prior version)."
"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'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."
Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 8th in Backup and Recovery with 69 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, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and HPE StoreOnce, whereas NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, NetApp Cloud Backup, Delphix and Veritas NetBackup. See our Cohesity DataProtect vs. NetApp SnapCenter report.
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