# Page 2 | Cohesity Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 2 - Is Cohesity the right Data Management solution for you? Explore 54 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/166007/Cohesity/reviews --- Cohesity 4.6 (54) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/166007/Cohesity/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 2 - Reviews of Cohesity ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 26-50 of 54 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Brian C. IT Systems & Network Administrator Entertainment Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A great solution for so many workloads" January 6, 2020 5.0 Overall Cohesity has been one of the best vendors we have ever worked with. Their support team started very small and I usually got the same 2 or 3 customer service reps. Now they are much larger but I still get the 1-on-1 attention I need from their team. Pros Cohesity is first a fantastic backup product. We went from four backup solutions to just one. It gives us full off site DR capability by archiving to Azure. We protect many workloads such as VMware, SQL, Office 365 and file shares. Beyond that Cohesity is an amazing platform for test and development, file services and marketplace apps. Cons Getting up and running had a few glitches and it took a couple days to fully grasp the dependencies but once those were taken care of it has run very smoothly. Occasionally bugs will surface during new feature releases but I have not had any problems staying on the LTS track. Alternatives considered [Unitrends Backup](https://www.capterra.com/p/149362/Unitrends-Enterprise-Backup/)[Rubrik](https://www.capterra.com/p/148206/Rubrik/) Reason for choosing Cohesity Ease of use and available features in GA Review Source JH Justin H. IT Financial Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "A solid product with room for improvement" October 13, 2021 4.0 Backing up entire VM's through vCenter is a breeze and works well. Application backups (Exchange, SQL, AD) will all require an agent and the agent management is very poor in my opinion. Replication works fine and restore times from locally cached data is quick. There are still a lot of little things that keep this from being a polished solution but the overall product is good. Pros Profile creation makes scheduling very easy. Very fast restores from local appliances Excellent deduplication/compressions ratios. Cons Agent management is cumbersome and feels like an afterthought. This is my single biggest issue with this application Agent installation application doesn't open necessary firewall ports No centralized credential manager No global options for backup exclusions - have to manually set options for each policy you create Software claims immutable backups, but anyone with admin credentials can delete all data on the appliance. Maybe the term 'immutable' is open for debate, but if I can go in and delete all the data on a protection run, then this does not qualify for immutable in my mind. You can put legal holds on data, but this isn't the same thing. Reason for choosing Cohesity Rubrik sales team didn't try very hard and their solution was more expensive. Cohesity was talking to me each week, offered POC trials, demos, and on-site technician visit. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Windows Server Admin Sporting Goods Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Getting Better All the Time" February 4, 2020 4.0 Pros Ease of use. The software is fairly straight forward and finding and creating backup policies is has simple has a few clicks. You can customize every aspect of the backup job to get the best possible data retention that meets your SLA. Cons The API has a ways to go. It has gotten considerably better over the last year. Alternatives considered [Rubrik](https://www.capterra.com/p/148206/Rubrik/) Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Storage Admin Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Cohesity for NAS" June 19, 2022 5.0 Overall we have been able to use the product for NAS. This was our primary objective. Pros We love how it is scale-out. This technology is going with current NAS trends. We love having so much redundancy. Cons The support was lacking when we did have a problem. The internal teams lacked organization and we experienced delays in help and confusion of internal support. Review Source FC Fabian C. System Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Cohesity... 18 months later" June 2, 2020 5.0 We had so many issue with our old backup tool that I won’t know where to start. Now with Cohesity I can finally spend my time doing something else then firefighting. Also, As a backup administrator, I know that the backup we do every day can be restored quickly in case of issue. Pros Our journey with Cohesity started about 18 months ago and we are still so happy with the product. It’s working perfectly, it’s still fast and reliable as from day 1. Cons We are waiting for some new features to be added, like cluster support for Windows and RedHat cluster, it’s taking some time. Alternatives considered [Rubrik](https://www.capterra.com/p/148206/Rubrik/) Reason for choosing Cohesity It was not only a backup tool but an hyperconverged platform for our backup and archives Switched from [Dell EMC NetWorker](https://www.capterra.com/p/166860/Dell-EMC-NetWorker/) We had so many issue with NetWorker’ it will take too long to list them all. Review Source AL Adam L. Senior Solutions Architect Law Practice Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Not only a protection platform" February 26, 2021 5.0 Storage, compression, deduplication, backup and archiving combo like no others. Pros Cohesity redefines secondary storage, providing not only for robust, tamper-protected backup and archiving solution, but also allows to consolidate various secondary storage options and devices under single 'pane of glass' management platform. Ability to centrally manage and assign storage shares has been a great addition. Backups and restores also work as a breeze, including amazing capability to run the restored resource from the platform within seconds, without waiting for full restore. Cons Somewhat fast release cadence causes a little problems with dependencies and documentation, but that's palatable. Alternatives considered [Rubrik](https://www.capterra.com/p/148206/Rubrik/) Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Backup and storage sys admin Internet Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Cohesity bring HCI to backup" January 30, 2020 4.0 Pros Flexibility. Can use it as backup ,secondary storage, file server, NAS . All-in-one. No more VMs for reporting, media server, master server and so on. Cloud enabled: Can backup to cloud, tier to cloud, DR to cloud and also backup to cloud. And i mean any cloud provider. Cons It is not a cheap solution. You need at least 3 nodes. So it is not ok for small size solution. Alternatives considered [Rubrik](https://www.capterra.com/p/148206/Rubrik/) Reason for choosing Cohesity more deduplication factor Review Source DV Dustin V. Senior Systems Engineer Government Administration Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Look no further" January 17, 2020 5.0 Overall experience has been great, no complaints anywhere. Pros The visibility of your total foot print and management tools there of saves hours per day. Cons Its fast growing company so the update speed is fast. If you are looking for a static software for backups...this is not the one. Alternatives considered [Rubrik](https://www.capterra.com/p/148206/Rubrik/) Reason for choosing Cohesity all inclusive pricing, not piece milled. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Manager, IT Architecture Entertainment Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great backup solution, and a great partner" April 22, 2019 4.0 Cohesity has allowed us to move to a global backup platform that has modern cloud based capabilities, enabling a more flexible and cost efficient architecture. Pros I like the flexibility of the platform to service many backup needs, as well as the ability to act as a file server replacement for branch offices. In addition, the ability to archive and restore on-premise backups to AWS cloud is a major feature that we depend on for our operations. Last but not least, Cohesity has been a true partner as we rolled out their solution, and on more than one occasion has developed or improved their product based on our feedback or issues that we discovered. Cons as with all software, I wish it were cheaper. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Systems Enigneer Entertainment Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Ease to use backup and management appliance with more features" August 13, 2020 4.0 As said, it is setup very fast and easy to use. Also if you need backups in case of an emergency, it is very easy to handle with the GUI. Pros It is setup quickly and up and running in less than 2 hours. It is easy to administrate and also very easy to use on a daily basis. Cons there is not soo much not to like, but finding bugs that make admins live harder is definately not very nice. Some integrations like AD Forest recovery are not yet supported. Reason for choosing Cohesity Price/value for money and ease of use Switched from [Actifio](https://www.capterra.com/p/154196/Actifio/) Actifio contract was running out. Review Source EM Emre M. IT Specialist Textiles Used the software for: 2+ years ### "IT Specialist" May 23, 2023 5.0 It works very fast and functionally in Disaster backup and local bakups. We use it actively in our vmware environment Pros An excellent product that responds to us in compliance backup and disaster events Cons I'm in the backup expert information service Expert level Review Source KP Kurt P. Senior Engineer Education Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best backup software we've ever purchased" January 31, 2020 5.0 The overall experience has been great so far. We were able to get multiple admins up to speed how how to recover files and databases with ease. Pros The greatest thing about Cohesity is that it's a backup appliance with everything you need built right in. There are no special license to add special features. Cons At first some of the features were missing that other vendors were already offering but Cohesity have caught up. Reason for choosing Cohesity Cost mainly Switched from [Dell EMC NetWorker](https://www.capterra.com/p/166860/Dell-EMC-NetWorker/) Cost and way too difficult to manage. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Infrastructure Architect Food Production Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Some snags on implementation, but seems great" January 22, 2020 5.0 Pros This is a replacement for two separate tape backup solutions (Win/Linux and AIX). We won't have to worry about managing tapes from two dozen locations. We can also use the disk space as secondary storage for file servers. Cons The cluster had a misconfigured node that took the installer and support 3 hours to figure out it was a single variable in the config file. They don't support legacy systems very well. Alternatives considered [TSM](https://www.capterra.com/p/5063/TSM/) Reason for choosing Cohesity ease of use Review Source Jason S. System Engineer 1 Consumer Goods Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Better backups with Cohesity!" January 8, 2019 4.0 I found this software to be very clean and organized. I can easily view both of my clusters and manage all their settings. This software will be used to replace my current backup tapes. Pros Cohesity is a great product that preforms as intended. Backups work with little management and upgrading is very simple. I started using this software about 3 months ago with no prior experience, I have a very good understanding of how this software works. Cons my biggest complaint is, there is no Cohesity sponsored user training. Many other software businesses offer some user training. This would have made the learning curb much easier. Review Source CH Carl H. Infrastructure Manager Legal Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "It just works" January 7, 2020 4.0 We've been able to cut backup times from over a day to being able to run backups every four hours. I've been partially successful at getting first level to recover user files instead of kicking the request to someone higher up. Pros Easy setup. I came in with zero experience and was able to set this up fairly quickly. It's much more intuitive than some of the competitors. Cons I don't agree with their method of releasing updates or the lack of a notification system regarding those updates. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer IT Infrastructure Manager Health, Wellness and Fitness Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "A great solution for backups" April 22, 2019 5.0 The simplicity of backups is amazing compared to some competitor products. We've owned the product for 1.5 years now and we're still as happy today as we were when we first purchased it. Pros Implementation was a breeze. Using it on a daily basis is very easy. Backups no longer take hours to register or review. Cons Installing SSL certs can't be done from the webpage neither can changing the IP's of the hosts. This all has to be done via the CLI. Review Source JS Jason S. Senior Network Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Backups that finally work" January 31, 2020 5.0 It has been fantastic. We have moved away from tapes, been able to change most of our SQL backups to FULL instead of SIMPLE, we have drastically shrunk our backup windows, we have had more consistent backups across the board, and we have improved the file recovery process so much that our Service Desk is happy with process. Pros The fact that during the PoC, I left it alone for 2 weeks after setting it up to backup 6 VMs. It did so without any issues (even on the virtual edition). The elastic search functionality is impressive and really helps us locate everything we need quickly. Cons I would love to see automated backup testing incorporated into the software. I really like everything about the product. Reason for choosing Cohesity Rubrik and Cohesity were the only two in the running at the end. It was the elastic search that brought us over to Cohesity over Rubrik Review Source AM Amit M. Practice Lead Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Cohesity Backup" July 14, 2021 4.0 Best in class ,relatively inexpensive and feature rich software Pros It is really easy to use ,with lot of features ,scalable Cons some options related to physical and exchange server are missing Reason for choosing Cohesity Cost and scalability Review Source BH Brian H. Systems Architect Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Cohesity is a great backup solution that can do much more, and the feature list is growing." August 10, 2021 5.0 We have been very happy with our relationship with Cohesity. The company listens to users and I have seen features I requested added to the product. Reporting used to be a weak point, not it is very good comparatively. Pros The software has a nice interface and a very concise dashboard. Backups are completed consistently and we have not had trouble with restores. We also back up OneDrive and Sharepoint data with the software. Support is very good. Cons There are a few things which are handled differently from our previous backup software. When restoring a VM you must manually delete the existing VM from vCenter; the old software would do that for you. One approach may not be better than the other, but it did take a bit of sleuthing to figure out why we were getting an error on a VM restore initially. Reason for choosing Cohesity Cost and the perceived ability to deliver the features we required. Review Source PZ Pinchas Z. Senior IT Manager Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Cohesity backup solution " May 1, 2019 5.0 Pros Ease of use, intuitive, stable and customizeable. Cons One really, Wish I had heard of them sooner. Review Source MO Mike O. Director of IT Mining & Metals Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Set and forget backups" April 19, 2019 4.0 I have been able to easily backup, replicate, and restore data. It helps me sleep at night Pros Ease of use. Easy to set and monitor backups and a choice of restore options make this product a stress reliever Cons Hardware monitor features could be better (temp, and so on) Review Source CM Chris M. Lead Storage Administrator Higher Education Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Cohesity - modern backup and more" April 19, 2019 5.0 Pros It just works. Racked and installed in under 1 hour and was able to backup and test recovery in very short order. Cons So far, I have not found anything that I do not like. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Systems Engineering Manager Automotive Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Game changing backup solution" April 24, 2019 5.0 Pros The ease of use has made backup easy. They have a google like search like helps you locate file to restore when employees cant remember what they called the file. Installation of new sites take less than a few hours. Recoveries are fast and there instant mount are great. Cons No so far the product has been working great. Review Source TZ Tim Z. Security Engineer Utilities Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Cohesity back and restore" December 3, 2020 5.0 Great. We had issues deployment but that was related to the servers. But cohesity support was very helpful and did a great job. Pros Having access to Helios is feature. And the setup and install of Cohesity was seamless. Choesity support is one of the best support teams. Cons I wish there were report or custom reports option. Alternatives considered [Rubrik](https://www.capterra.com/p/148206/Rubrik/) Reason for choosing Cohesity I worked with Cohesity before at a previous job. Review Source GS Gabby S. Winery Manager Wine and Spirits Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Backup & FileSharing" June 15, 2021 5.0 Overall, Cohesty has been a good solution for us. It has been easy to use and we are able to get everyone on board! Pros Cohesity has been great for us! There are always people available for one on one help if you need it! It is easy to use and fast. Cons We do wish it was a bit more cost effective. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.