Great Product That Does What It Is Supposed To
April 13, 2020
Great Product That Does What It Is Supposed To
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
DataPlatform Virtual Edition
Modules Used
- DataPlatform
- Helios
Overall Satisfaction with Cohesity Helios
Our experience with the Cohesity DataProtect Platform has been overwhelmingly positive as we been able to manage our 500+ VMs and physical servers with only a few backup policies. Backups: VMs are currently being added to jobs automatically through tagging. But, we also manually add VMs to jobs at times as we need to split up the load of VMs to multiple backup jobs. We try to keep a ratio of 15 VMs to 1 job. After getting a Cohesity Agent on a SQL server and syncing it with Cohesity, it is simple to set a backup/retention schedule for Log, Incremental, and Full backups based on policy. We utilize the Cohesity APIs to produce daily reports on jobs that have succeeded, failed, paused, etc. We send an email to our Systems team with this information and log it in a .csv. This allows us to give a timeline to backup auditors as well as let us know when something isn't going right. Restores: We have used Cohesity to restore granular files as well as restore SQL databases. VM's restore to vSphere directly. VM's typically restore quite quickly and work right away as long as they're restored to the original vSphere they came from. Individual files can be searched on multiple VM backups and downloaded locally or placed back on source machine. SQL Databases can be restored to any SQL server instance, not only the original. As long as the SQL versions match. *We have had some luck restoring databases from older SQL versions to newer SQL versions.
- Intuitive user Interface.
- Good reporting and metrics.
- Cohesity restores data well.
- Replication performance - We needed support to provide some customizations in order to get our replication to work properly to another offsite cluster. We have been told that this issue is fixed in the newest general release.
- Support - I would characterize the support as very good, but in a few instances I could tell my support agent needed to go higher up his chain to get clarification on features. I believe Cohesity is rapidly growing their support infrastructure as they put more hardware in the field.
Overall Satisfaction Continued
- We were able to save money using Cohesity as secondary storage.
- We have a predictable cost model for backup growth.
- More reliable backups and much higher performance.
Do you think Cohesity delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Cohesity's feature set?
Yes
Did Cohesity live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Cohesity go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Cohesity again?
Yes