Cohesity vs. vSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cohesity
Score 8.5 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Cohesity protects the world’s most critical data workloads across on-prem, cloud-native, and SaaS with backup and recovery, threat intelligence, cyber vaulting, files and objects, and recovery orchestration.N/A
vSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced (or vDPA), now part of vSphere, was a VMware data protection and recovery offering. The product is no longer available standalone.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
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Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Cohesity
9.2
55 Ratings
8% above category average
vSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
9.4
1 Ratings
14% above category average
Universal recovery8.050 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Instant recovery9.052 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Recovery verification9.048 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Business application protection8.948 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations9.051 Ratings00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification9.053 Ratings00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud9.542 Ratings00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression8.954 Ratings00 Ratings
Snapshots9.551 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Flexible deployment9.552 Ratings00 Ratings
Management dashboard9.954 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Platform support9.555 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Retention options10.055 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Encryption9.051 Ratings00 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
Cohesity
8.8
7 Ratings
8% above category average
vSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
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Ratings
Continuous data protection9.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Replication9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics8.47 Ratings00 Ratings
Malware protection8.77 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Score 9.6 out of 10
Veeam Data Platform
Veeam Data Platform
Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.7 out of 10
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.7 out of 10
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(65 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.6
(3 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.9
(27 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Cohesity
Cohesity has been awesome. The performance (speed) that it has been able to provide has actually given me back time every month. I have to test my backups monthly, and the Cloning process that Cohesity has available from it's backup has given me days back each month. It just a few minutes I can have VMs restored for testing and documentation. This took a couple days with the previous vendor.
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VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced is well suited for a thin client environment, and/or an environment that runs multiple virtual servers. It is also well suited for an environment with disaster recover requirements that require backups of everything. vSphere is very expensive, so it would probably not be a very good choice for a startup that could use a cheaper alternative in the beginning, or a physical machine environment.
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Pros
Cohesity
  • Easy to use and setup new backup and restore jobs.
  • Extremely fast recovery time, can spin a VMware backup VM up in well under a minute.
  • Granular recovery search options, easy to find specific files or systems to recover (or SQL DB).
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  • Maintains backups of all virtual systems for disaster recovery compliance.
  • Supports plugins for backups of Microsoft systems.
  • As with most VMware products vSphere is incredibly easy to use.
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Cons
Cohesity
  • Reporting could always be better- executive-style reports have to be generated from data at multiple points.
  • Some tasks that could be brought to the UI that today we have to call support on (for example when an NFS mount is still active but we cannot see it from the UI)
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  • Reports are too complex, could be made clearer.
  • The interface could be simplified.
  • Backups of physical servers take a very long time.
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Likelihood to Renew
Cohesity
We have been very pleased with this backup solution. It is fast and reliable, and supports our VMware infrastructure. The company's support has been great, including proactively replacing our nodes when the flash memory was reporting high wear. Support is offered on-shore as well. We plan on continuing to use this product for the foreseeable future.
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Usability
Cohesity
Cohesity Helios is very easy to use and the web up is simple to navigate and the main dashboard presents a very good and clear overview summary of protection status, capacity and other vital metrics. If you have multiple clusters you can get a single pane view of overall status which is awesome.
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Support Rating
Cohesity
Support is quick to respond but lacks that ongoing responsiveness if the issue is not simple. There will be large gaps in replies if they need to resort to escalation and when there are timezone differences between yourself and the person who picked up the ticket.
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Alternatives Considered
Cohesity
We looked at Veeam and although it's a great product when we priced out the licensing of both primary and disaster datacenters it became much too expensive. Rubrik is a great product and very similar to Cohesity. In the end, Cohesity had a secondary storage play as well as a better UI and better compatibility with lower tier cloud storage. We also like the way Cohesity did protection jobs vs Rubrik's virtual machine centric backup. CommVault is a product we still use today due to its massive features and the ability for bare metal backups. Cohesity does a much better job in the area of UI simplicity, virtual backup ease, and ease of management.
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CloudBacko is the only similar product that I have used, and while it worked by backing up my virtual machines to Google Drive, VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced not only backs up the virtual machines, buton databases, physical servers and more, and backs them up to a centralized location, and has 24/7 live support.
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Professional Services
Cohesity
Overall Cohesity professional services like the rest of Cohesity are brilliant. We had some poor advice around how to carve up our Netapp protection jobs which has set us back but it has been acknowledged that a mistake was made by Cohesity and they promise for future engagements with new customers the lessons learnt with us will be integrated into their planning workshop for NAS onboarding.
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Return on Investment
Cohesity
  • Several hours a week of admin time no longer needed to deal with tapes.
  • Many hours a year saved in that the admin no longer has to deal with LTO drives, LTO drive firmware, tape libraries, tape library firmware, a physical server connected to tape library, etc. Retired old legacy NAS devices that in some instances no longer had firmware updates. One system to administer and maintain.
  • Piece of mind. We replicate from our onsite cluster to an offsite cluster in the event of a DR event at HQ.
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  • Virtual machines and servers are backed up and secure
  • DR compliance is met
  • Multiple platforms backed up to a central location
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ScreenShots

Cohesity Screenshots

Screenshot of Cohesity Data Cloud in the DataProtect Summary DashboardScreenshot of DataHawk Dashboard: Identify Potential Data Exfiltration and Behavior AnalyticsScreenshot of Screenshot of Threat DetectionScreenshot of FortKnox Cyber VaultScreenshot of Site Continuity