# Cohesity Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > 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 # Reviews of Cohesity Ease of use 4.7 Customer Service 4.7 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews BS Ben S Infrastructure ArchitectInformation Technology and Services, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Cohesity is a Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) with awesome support and the experience and knowledge to backup the claim.“ April 23, 2026 CB Chuck B System Administrator IIInformation Technology and Services, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “After the honeymoon phase, it's been real difficult establishing contact to get help.“ May 28, 2025 EC Euberto C Technical Services HeadInformation Technology and Services, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “We have NEVER regretted the change. Since our migration, the amount of time required to manage and complete backups has dropped significantly. With the ability to have on-prem and cloud solutions working together has allowed protection of both all of my on-prem needs and still protect all of our cloud needs as well."“ August 12, 2024 CB Chuck B System Administrator IIInformation Technology and Services, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “That kind of defeats the purpose of a backup.....“ May 28, 2025 CB Chuck B System Administrator IIInformation Technology and Services, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “They helped fix a slow synchronization process that was due to our too many users.“ May 28, 2025 sk scott k sr analystBanking, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “Furthermore we have requested this several times from support and we seem to get back generic documentation rather than insightful feedback. “ May 3, 2023 HK Hassan K Senior AuditorAccounting, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “The software comes with amazing cyber security features.“ September 4, 2024 Ryan J Storage AdminHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “The internal teams lacked organization and we experienced delays in help and confusion of internal support.“ June 19, 2022 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 54 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Joshua V. Security & Infrastructure Engineer Insurance Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Cohesity solves your backup and storage problems!" July 30, 2021 5.0 We have been very happy. We have eliminated tape backups, eliminated our legacy NAS devices, and added new features we didn't know we would even get at the time we purchased... like O365 backups and AD backups. The engineering team is aggressively working to extend the product to more use cases in the data management realm. Pros Cohesity has been a quick and easy win for our department. Setup and installation was quick and we were able to start backing up our VMs and legacy NAS devices. We have been able to eliminate time consuming and costly tapes by replicating our monthly's to a remote Cohesity cluster. In the future we will utilize cloud via Cohesity as well. Cons There have been a handful of patches that need to be administered from the command line vs the gui process that normally makes updates a snap. Alternatives considered [ShadowProtect](https://www.capterra.com/p/119881/ShadowProtect/)[Rubrik](https://www.capterra.com/p/148206/Rubrik/) Reason for choosing Cohesity Cohesity offered file shares in addition to backup capabilities so that we could retire legacy NAS devices. Rubrik was substantially more expensive. The Storage Craft offering was an intriguing budget option, but didn't seem quite as fleshed out as Cohesity who had much larger market presence. Switched from [Veritas Backup Exec](https://www.capterra.com/p/231491/Backup-Exec/) Tired of dealing with tapes both in terms of cost and time. Legacy file servers needed replacement. Review Source BS Ben S. Infrastructure Architect Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "In 30+ years in IT, Cohesity is the best backup / restore product I have ever seen. " April 23, 2026 5.0 I could not have anything but awesome expenience with Cohesity. Finally a company developed a working, easy to use backup and restore product. Pros I have been in IT for 30+ years and Cohesity is hands down the best back product I have ever used. Cohesity is a Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) with awesome support and the experience and knowledge to backup the claim. 100% webased and perfect integration with VMWare, Hyper-V, Nutanix, and agent based for specific applications. Cons I only wish I found Cohesity sooner in my career as I have used every major backup product on the market and Cohesity has them all beat. Alternatives considered [Commvault Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/196129/Commvault-Cloud/)[Veritas Backup Exec](https://www.capterra.com/p/231491/Backup-Exec/)[NetBackup](https://www.capterra.com/p/238300/Veritas-NetBackup/)[Veeam Data Platform](https://www.capterra.com/p/154905/Veeam-Availability-Suite/) Reason for choosing Cohesity Cohesity beat out the competition in every measure available. Switched from [Unitrends Backup](https://www.capterra.com/p/149362/Unitrends-Enterprise-Backup/) Unitrends was extremly slow and could no longer backup the products we required. Review Source CB Chuck B. System Administrator II Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great at first, but the honeymoon is over." May 28, 2025 3.0 In the beginning of our work with them, they were glad to help us in our setup and initialization. They helped fix a slow synchronization process that was due to our too many users. After the honeymoon phase, it's been real difficult establishing contact to get help. Pros I found the interface very intuitive and rather easy to use and navigate around the site. The options available are what we asked for, and it seems like setup went rather smoothly. User's backup data that are still in the source are easily retrievable. Cons While the initial setup seemed to go smooth enough, we've found several instances where we've attempted to go and retrieve backup for a user, but can't find anything related to them. This seems to happen when the user account is deleted from the source (MS Entra). That kind of defeats the purpose of a backup..... Switched from [Layer2 Cloud Connector](https://www.capterra.com/p/169874/Cloud-Connector/) We switched from Layer2 because, at the time, they didn't provide an off-site solution for us, while Cohesity did. Review Source EC Euberto C. Technical Services Head Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Cohesity DataProtect an enterprise complete data protection for business" August 12, 2024 5.0 We migrated to Cohesity almost four years ago from our legacy backup appliance. We have NEVER regretted the change. Since our migration, the amount of time required to manage and complete backups has dropped significantly. With the ability to have on-prem and cloud solutions working together has allowed protection of both all of my on-prem needs and still protect all of our cloud needs as well." Pros Cohesity has been a great benefit in providing our needs around backup, file storage, and cloud services. The ability to protect all my on-prem items (keeping backups on-prem) and all cloud items separately (keeping them in the cloud) has great helped in completely backups in a timely manager and saving large amounts of bandwidth; because I no longer have to pull all cloud items to on-prem solution. Over all one of the greatest benefits of Cohesity has been the fact that they are a true partner. All during the installation, to any support needs (very few), and improvements to their product. Cons Very minor, but one item for us that could use improvement is the bare-metal restore. I have only used a couple of times, but a third party app is required. Would be nice if this was all built into Cohesity. Switched from [Unitrends Backup](https://www.capterra.com/p/149362/Unitrends-Enterprise-Backup/) Features, capabilities, functions and the services. Review Source Michael H. IT Infrastructure Manager Logistics and Supply Chain Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Peace of Mind" April 23, 2020 5.0 Cohesity has been excellent to work with. The local team is always helpful and responsive, support is excellent, and the product exceeds all expectations. We started small because we were uncertain that they could do all of the things we heard about during the pre-sale process, but we couldn't be happier with the product. We are currently in the process of tripling our capacity and adding additional features because we were so impressed by every aspect of Cohesity. Pros Backups were always a pain point for us and required constant attention prior to moving to Cohesity. Cohesity makes backup and recovery simple to manage and requires no attention. It just works. This had freed up resources to focus on improvements to other areas of the business. Cons Integration was painless. When we first implemented Cohesity there were some reporting features that were lacking, but each new release has addressed this and we now have access to all of the reports and features that we were missing. Alternatives considered [Data Infrastructure Management](https://www.capterra.com/p/118936/Cloud-ONTAP/)[Nimble](https://www.capterra.com/p/123032/Nimble/) Reason for choosing Cohesity There were many factors, but the culture and philosophy of Cohesity was a big part of the decision. The price was less of a factor, but it was much cheaper than the competition. Switched from [Data Infrastructure Management](https://www.capterra.com/p/118936/Cloud-ONTAP/) We were looking to replace an aging file server and Cohesity was a perfect fit. They were able to easily migrate the data and provide additional features and functionality for a much lower cost. Review Source MA Mark A. Infrastructure Manager Machinery Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Mark's Cohesity review" May 4, 2023 5.0 Over the the Cohesity is a set and forget it solution. Pros The easy of setup and use and having in all in one applicance (software and hardware). Cons The process for patching the appliance is a little clunky. Alternatives considered [Veeam Data Platform](https://www.capterra.com/p/154905/Veeam-Availability-Suite/) Reason for choosing Cohesity It was easy to use solution, an appliance based solution and it was more cost-effective. Switched from [Commvault Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/196129/Commvault-Cloud/) It was expensive and very difficult to administer. Review Source CB Cazi B. Systems Engineer Government Administration Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Centralized and Simplified Data Management and Protection" May 21, 2022 4.0 Cohesity has greatly improved our data protection from our previous backup solution. Being able to centrally manage and protect our data, as well as the advanced security features to protect from ransomware attack, helps us all sleep better at night. Pros A modern data protection solution built with virtualization and cloud in mind and hyperconverged infrastructure. It helps simplify the backup software and hardware into a single solution. Cons The reporting is a little basic, although they do have a custom reporting module for more advanced reporting, although that requires developing your own custom reports. Reason for choosing Cohesity We selected Cohesity because it was an all-in-one solution, collapsing the backup hardware, software, and cloud into a single solution with centralized administration. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CTO Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Scalable and high performance back-up solutions and more!" January 17, 2021 4.0 Great innovator that really listens, if you provide feedback. Pros Being a platform for secondary data opens up a lot of possibilities: back-up of workloads, NAS, applications, but also being target for archive data combines nicely. Additional analytics on data, combined with a great scalable solutions gives everything needed for solving secondary storage challenges. Cons Currenlty not supporting complete MS365 stack. Alternatives considered [Rubrik](https://www.capterra.com/p/148206/Rubrik/) Reason for choosing Cohesity More functionality regarding storing secondary data. Review Source David B. System Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Head and shoulders above the competition" March 5, 2020 5.0 We were able to implement greatly reduced backup windows and enhance how many backups we take throughout the day giving us a much better ability to recover and various points. Pros Cohesity is an amazing platform that greatly reduced out data management and backup footprint. I really like the ease of use and ability to have one place to go for all of our data protections needs. Cons This can be a little difficult to size and configure initially. It can also do a ton of stuff so getting your head around how it works and then be able to move forward with it can take a little time. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Computer Networking Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Your workload kept safe with Cohesity" July 28, 2021 4.0 We have had a very positive experience with the tool. The ability to integrate with multiple virtualization platforms and manage all of them in the same way has been really great. We've been able to retire a nunber of tools as a result and centralize all of our backups using Cohesity. Pros What I like best about this software is the easy to navigate web interface. I also like knowing that when I set up a backup schedule it is going to run -- there is no need to go back and check on the status a bunch. The tool has never missed a backup since we started using it and restoring the backup couldn't be easier. Cons What we liked least about the software is the cost. Each VM has to be licensed in order to be protected and when you have thousands of VM's the cost can grow exponentially very quickly. Review Source SR Shawn R. Platform Manager Insurance Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Love my Cohesity!!!!!" May 4, 2023 5.0 Pros For us the speed/performance of backup and restores was a great feature of Cohesity. My previous backup was not completing on a daily basis; because the backups were taking way to long to completes. I could not backup everything in a 24 hour time period (with multiple appliances running). Cons There have been no complaints with Cohesity. We have been very pleased with the product. Alternatives considered [Rubrik](https://www.capterra.com/p/148206/Rubrik/) Review Source EV Erwin V. Infrastructure Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Cohesity for easy scalable back-ups" September 2, 2021 4.0 From a daily basis it really lowered the time we were needed to manage our back-ups. Even when we had issues their support is top of the game and really helpful. Pros Cohesity was for us the perfect solution in providing back-up as a service to our customers. It is easy to scale, easy to configure and very easy to manage. Cons It was somewhat behind on features compared to the likes of Veeam for example, but they have been implementing the missing features at a rapid pace. They also value feedback a lot so when requesting a missing feature their development team will look into it. Alternatives considered [Rubrik](https://www.capterra.com/p/148206/Rubrik/) Review Source AK Arnoud K. Infrastructure Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "The great way Cohesity is going" April 23, 2019 4.0 We managed to solved managing 2 systems for 1 product and having to manualy exetend datastores for backupjobs. The support is great and product development is listening to the market and their customers for features. Pros We were running into problems with our old backup solution, cohesity gave us the posibility to combine scale-out storage and backup software in 1 design. Making it easier for supporting and maintaining the software. It got great support for VMware software and gets better features with the newer releases. Functionality is almost on par with other vendors giving them a great edge on competition. New versions gives us multi-tenant support for MSP's and vCloud director support. Cons The functionality is not completely on par with other vendors, but the new 6.2 release gives us great functionality for vCloud Director and multi-tenant support for MSP. Review Source JT John T. Storage Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great platform" December 1, 2021 5.0 Pros Coming to Cohesity from NetBackup was an easy, pleasant transition. Cons Since previously using NetBackup I was accustomed to a plethora of information for every conceivable error that could arise. Not being an industry dinosaur, Cohesity has a bit less of that google-able troubleshooting capacity. Though time will fix that and they make up for it with useful community forums like galaxy. Review Source AA Alessio A. System Engineer Gambling & Casinos Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Powerful BackUp and Restore Appliance that will be even greater in the future" July 2, 2020 4.0 Pros You can create BackUp Groups and sync them with you vCenter. As soon as so create a VM in the specific folder, the vm will be backuped.That is very useful and you don't have to configure every backup for every vm. Cons Unfortunately, it often happens that bugs are delivered with updates. Sometimes also critical matters. Review Source UP Uriel P. Systems Engineer II Government Administration Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Cohesity for Server Team Farms" April 19, 2019 5.0 Pros It's easy to use and has a rich interface. Great functionality! Cons So far, no complaints. The setup was easy and user interface is intuitive. Review Source FM Fawzi M. Director, Cloud Operations Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Cohesity Data Protection" May 24, 2020 5.0 Pros Easy setup, management, Operations and fast restore. Cons Non so far for my use case. I used it for protecting workloads and replicating to another site. Review Source rM ryan M. DBA Industrial Automation Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "great product" June 29, 2020 5.0 very good! Pros great data protection and is very quick to recover files Cons I havent found anything that i have not liked yet. Review Source CN Christian N. IT Manager Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Backup potente e gestione semplificata" June 13, 2025 4.0 Nel complesso, Cohesity si è dimostrato un sistema di protezione dati affidabile, scalabile e con performance elevate. Ha migliorato visibilmente la nostra strategia di backup. Pros L’interfaccia intuitiva e centralizzata di Cohesity facilita la gestione dei backup. Le funzionalità di deduplicazione e compressione sono molto efficienti, permettendo un risparmio concreto in termini di spazio e tempo. Ottima anche l’integrazione con ambienti virtualizzati. Cons La configurazione iniziale può risultare complessa per chi è alle prime armi. Inoltre, alcune funzionalità avanzate richiedono conoscenze tecniche più approfondite. Switched from [Bacula Enterprise](https://www.capterra.com/p/171076/Modern-Data-Center/) Abbiamo scelto di passare a Cohesity per semplificare la gestione dei backup, migliorare l'affidabilità del ripristino e ridurre i tempi operativi. Bacula richiedeva una gestione più complessa e meno flessibile in ambienti virtualizzati, mentre Cohesity offre un'interfaccia moderna, automazioni più efficaci e maggiore scalabilità. Review Source Suraj D. Data Scientist Computer Software Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Solid Choice for Enterprise Data Protection - Strong on Innovation, Steep on Price" August 11, 2025 4.0 Overall experience is great with great support and team. I am looking forward to next innovation from Cohesity. Pros It's ease of use which makes Cohesity a great choice. Cohesity Products and Services provide a very good performance and speed. Cohesity Gaia - AI-powered insights with natural language processing for data protection workflows is a very nice product. Cons I feel pricing of Cohesity products are on a higher side and long backup times makes it not the best product in the market right now. Review Source HK Hassan K. Senior Auditor Accounting Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "A Great Solution For Data and Security Management " September 4, 2024 5.0 Pros I like the ease of managing data and data backup with Cohesity The software comes with amazing cyber security features. Cons No serious challenges with Cohesity. Always works. Review Source sK scott K. sr analyst Banking Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "neutral" May 3, 2023 3.0 The tool seems like it is in it's infancy - restoring is more difficult than it needs to be and the "instant recovery" seems great in theory, but the vMotion aspect takes way too long to be usable in our capacity. Pros support is very helpful for all of the issues that seem to creep up daily. Cons There are so many features that we ( and support ) do not seem to know about. IT would be very helpful if these features were easily accessible rather than hidden away. Furthermore we have requested this several times from support and we seem to get back generic documentation rather than insightful feedback. Many of the features are flaky and require constant monitoring / case opening to resolve. We have opened a lot of cases in our timeline thus far... many. Alternatives considered [Veeam Data Platform](https://www.capterra.com/p/154905/Veeam-Availability-Suite/) Reason for choosing Cohesity not my decision Switched from [Dell EMC Avamar](https://www.capterra.com/p/231991/Dell-EMC-Avamar/) lifespan of the product ended Review Source Pranav S. Lead Engineer Broadcast Media Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Efficient and cost effective secondary storage and backup solution" June 9, 2021 5.0 Pros This product can alone replace your storage array, backup solution and the Disaster recovery solution. Also, it is a compact four node system and has integration with several other vendors like VMware , AWS, Azure etc. Cons The KB articles and product documentation can me improved and made more specific and to the point. Review Source Brent R. IT Systems Architect Education Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Set it and forget it" February 9, 2023 5.0 Deployment was easy and getting familiar with the interface was quick. Once the backup policies are set, and VMs associated with policy, it just works. Pros Ease of use and the simple interface. Connect Cohesity to vCenter, select VMs to backup, and select the backup schedule. Cons I would like it to be less expensive. I am not saying it is not worth the price, just that less expensive would be nice. Switched from [ShadowProtect](https://www.capterra.com/p/119881/ShadowProtect/) I like the integrated HW/SW solution Review Source JB Josh B. Network Administrator Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "It just works." September 9, 2021 5.0 Great! Cohesity has been integral to our ransomware mitigation and backup/disaster recovery systems. It has the added benefit of being able to perform additional stuff like Data Classification and searching. Pros It's easy to use and setup, and they help you through the whole process. Cons There is one of our VMs that the Cohesity could not index, so we're forced to leave it unindexed. This just means we have to wait for the file list to populate when restoring singular or groups of files from it. Just a minor peeve. 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