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 support is awesome. They are very fast, competent and friendly."
"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."
"Cohesity is extremely easy to use and intuitive."
"It offers an easy, quick backup and restore of files and VMs. Also, the "Google-like " search for files is awesome."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"We are happy with the support provided by Cohesity for the issues we've come across."
"It's stable."
"It's very helpful because SnapCenter is already integrated with VMware Snapshot, so it's very easy to use."
"The centralized GUI is the best feature, that there is only one webpage where we can see the states of all the backup jobs. We can see all the tasks that are running and we can quickly see if one fails; if they are running or have any issues. We have all that in one place."
"Restoring and cloning are easy to do."
"I like the instant backups and recovery feature that SnapCenter provides within NetApp storage systems."
"It's a centralized, easy-to-use solution empowering RBAC management, monitoring, notifications, extensive logging, and backup schedules for standalone as well as groups of the same types of environments. The cloning capabilities accelerate development."
"The Exchange plugin is the most valuable because we have a lot of customers that use SnapManager Exchange and have to migrate to SnapCenter."
"The backup process finishes very quickly."
"The main advantage is its fast backup and restore."
"The rack mounting instructions did not appear to be correct, but we were able to overcome it."
"Cohesity DataProtect takes hours to restore a single file, even a small one."
"The one area where we would like to see additional improvements is with reporting. There are very granular reports from each grid. There are also some built-in reports within Helios (SAS Management Console) that offers basic reporting. However, for complex, large-enterprise environments, a more robust reporting engine that supports detailed audit reporting and enhanced ad hoc reports would be welcome."
"We have Oracle databases running on Linux servers in our environment and we have found the Oracle backups were quite complex to setup."
"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 would like to see Microsoft Exchange DAG supported as soon as possible."
"The error handling could be improved."
"There is limited support for legacy systems, which is something that could be improved."
"We have hundreds of servers and systems and hundreds of customers and they're separated in a multi-tenancy way in NetApp SVM. Right now, the problem is that it always scan all SVMs. If I backup Customer A, it scans all SVMs, or tries to scan all SVMs, if there is a backup relationship on the storage. But it doesn't have the permissions, so we run into timeouts or the backup just takes too long. They're fixing that in the upcoming release..."
"The compatibility with other manufacturers, like Oracle and Hyper-V, could be improved. I would like to see it be more compatible with other software."
"It needs to support vSphere 6.7."
"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."
"We tend to have a lot of Hyper-V... so now we have two management consoles and we would ideally like to leverage SnapCenter to include Hyper-V."
"The replication feature needs improvement in future releases."
"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."
"We have experience some difficulties with our current support. We are engaging in engineering level support because some of our problems are more technical."
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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