What is your experience?
Our company is looking to get it, and just trying to get other opinions (other than the references they supplied).
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phildrew
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If it works, it works great.
If it doesn’t, they’ll tell you that their data integrity is beyond question, and not actually explain why a file wasn’t backed up (because to them, it’s a literal impossibility). Nevermind that I can open the file, copy the file elsewhere, and verify that copy as being exact with a checksum, etc.
I also wouldn’t touch it with a 40 foot pole if you have any Windows Failover clusters. We do. They told us they could back it up, and fully supported. Turns out, that’s pretty wishful thinking on their part. It can backup roles on a cluster node, but it is NOT cluster aware, and if there’s a failover, you’re taking entirely new full backups, not an incremental. Not good for keeping backup windows to a minimum, or even consistent.
Their ability to compress and dedupe is impressive.
Be aware that if anything does go wrong, it’s not like Veeam where there’s an experienced community to help you. Your only source of help is their support - it’s a proprietary black box, and you have no idea what’s going on inside.
Oh, and if you want to backup to tape, my suggestion is to just walk away. Their “integration” with QStar is a kludge at best. If you need tape, I would narrow your search to only look at backup systems with native tape support. Period.
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Take a look at Redstor as an alternative to Cohesity. It’s feature set is extremely robust to protect your cloud and on-prem workloads. Let me know if you’d like to discuss your specific needs or see a demo.
