Cohesity SiteContinuity vs NetApp Disaster Recovery

Cohesity SiteContinuity coordinates disaster recovery for mission-critical workloads, with recovery options ranging from an individual file or business application to a full data center. Its plan builder supports automated failover and failback, continuous data protection, asynchronous replication, non-disruptive recovery testing and restore operations. Organizations can manage physical or virtual clusters at primary and recovery sites, or choose Cohesity-managed disaster recovery that fails over to the customer’s AWS account. Listed targets include VMware Standard or above, versions 6.5 and 6.7, and Cohesity NAS Views for customer-managed deployment; the managed service lists VMware VMs and Amazon EC2 as a target. Interfaces for automation include a RESTful API, PowerShell and Python SDK. The datasheet lists AES-256 encryption in transit and at rest for both options, and anomaly detection for customer-managed deployment. Pricing is on request, with a 30-day trial listed. Cohesity states that technical support is available around the clock, with a one-hour initial response target for P1 errors.

NetApp Disaster Recovery coordinates replication, failover, and failback for VMware virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters between source and recovery sites. It uses NetApp ONTAP SnapMirror to keep application-consistent Snapshot copies synchronized; asynchronous replication can support a recovery point objective as low as five minutes. Teams can conduct nondisruptive failover tests using temporary virtual machines and FlexClone volumes. VMware recovery targets include on-premises environments, Google Cloud VMware Engine, and Amazon Elastic VMware Service. Kubernetes recovery supports on-premises NFS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel, and recovery from on premises to AWS using NFS or iSCSI. The service runs within the NetApp Console SaaS environment and uses a Console agent in a cloud or private on-premises network. Its intelligent proxy communicates over HTTPS on port 443 without requiring a VPN or direct internet access. Licensing is based on used capacity on protected source ONTAP volumes, not virtual machine or application count. A free trial is listed, but plan prices are not provided.