Cohesity Version 6.5.1 Released!

On August 17th, Cohesity announced the release of their new platform version 6.5.1! This release is packed with over 75 enhancements since the last release. Since there are so many, we can’t really go through them in any detail. However, below is a very long and distinguished bulleted list of most of the enhancements in the 6.5.1 release.

NOTE: The below list of enhancements in version 6.5.1 are (GA) Generally Available with the exception of the individual listed items marked with either BETA or TECH PREVIEW.

CLOUD:
- Microsoft 365 –
  - (TECH PREVIEW) SharePoint Online support
  - (TECH PREVIEW) SharePoint Online site documents
  - (GA) OneDrive
  - (GA) Exchange
  - (GA) Filter users based on Azure Active Directory Attributes
- Azure –
  - Incremental APIs for Managed Disk VMs
  - Support for Hyper-V GEN2 VMs
- AWS –
  - A backup admin can specify a VPC and Subnet for fleet instances at the source level for backup
- Helios On-Prem & Global Policies –
  - On-premise multi-cluster management: single pane of glass experience for customers with many dark sites (Tech Preview)
  - Global policies: Enable policies at a global level for global and standardized governance and data management
  - New storage impact simulation and enhanced ransomware detection

SOFTWARE INTEGRATIONS:
- (TECH PREVIEW) Exchange DAG Awareness –
  - Active/Active DAG configuration and automating DP for Exchange server mailboxes
  - Simplifies Server and Exchange DAG discovery and registration
  - Helps backup admins reorder backup priority of Exchange mailboxes base on their own requirements
- (TECH PREVIEW) Integrated NoSQL/Hadoop experience –
  - Strengthening our NoSQL and Hadoop solution by unifying the comprehensive backup and recovery solution into a single framework
  - Unified protection and experience for your traditional and modern NoSQL databases
  - All workflows of DataProtect apply to NoSQL and Hadoop: a simple and comprehensive solution that’s a differentiator
- Oracle –
  - Backup with “sysbackup” privilege
  - (TECH PREVIEW) Secondary VLAN for registration, backups, recovery, and cloning support
  - (TECH PREVIEW) Backup Oracle on Windows Servers support
  - Backup support for TDE databases
  - Pfile control during restore/clone functions
  - Log backup archival and PIT restore from archive
  - Enhanced Oracle pre-check utility
- SQL –
  - (GA) Error message handling framework
  - (TECH PREVIEW) Exclude a SQL DB from a protection group
  - (TECH PREVIEW) Resume recovery after fail
- SAP HANA 2.0 –
  - (GA) SAP HANA On Power
  - (BETA) Oracle on Linux
  - (GA) Uses native API for backup, recovery, enquiry, and delete
  - (GA) New RPM is downloadable from UI
- Secondary NetApp –
  - Back up data protection volumes from secondary NetApp
  - Save space and no impact to their primary by backing up from the snapmirror copy and help reduce TCO
- VMware Enhancements –
  - VMware SAN Transport via FC for better bandwidth/performance
  - File-level recovery with VMTools
  - Register vCenter on secondary network
  - VMware VM Recovery with Copy Recovery

PHYSICAL:
- Compute-Only Nodes –
  - Options –
    - Cisco UCS C220 M5
    - HPE DL360
    - Dell R640
    - Also some (BYOH) Bring-Your-Own-Hardware options with Cisco, HPE, Dell, Fujitsu, and Lenovo
  - Dedicated nodes for computing in a Cohesity cluster for running resource-intensive apps
  - Customers now have the flexibility to independently scale compute or storage resources
  - Experience better performance for resource intensive workloads
- New Cohesity C6055 Nodes –
  - C6055 Node –
    - High capacity 1U node
    - Cost competitive dense node for lower TCO for replication and archives
    - New expanded platform support: Fujitsu, Dell ROBO
  - CX8405 Node –
    - Dense All-Flash platform (92.16 TB RAW per node)
- New Fujitsu RX2540 M5 Node –
  - New OEM partner hardware
  - (2) Options –
    - 8TB RAW/5.3TB Usable
    - 16TB RAW/10.6TB Usable
- New Cisco Configurations –
  - Cisco UCS S3260 – 14TB drive integration
    - (2) Options –
      - Half-populated drives – 294TB RAW/194TB Usable
      - Fully-populated drives – 588TB RAW/388TB Usable
  - Cisco UCS C220 M5 –
    - 4TB drives – 12TB RAW/8TB Usable
- New Dell R640 ROBO Node –
  - (2) Options –
    - 46TB RAW/42TB Usable
    - 96TB RAW/64TB Usable
- Physical Agent –
  - Auto upgrade agent after cluster upgrade
  - Directive-file backup support
  - Protect all local volumes support option in protection group
  - Auto deployment of agent
  - Parallel file/folder data protection
  - Support registering physical server on (2) Cohesity clusters

PLATFORM:
- SmartFiles (NAS) –
  - Intent-Based views
  - New SMB SuperUser for share level permissions of SMB views
  - Audit Log – filter tab
  - Support for NIS environments
  - User mapping between Active Directory and NIS Provider
  - External NAS Tiering – Uptiering
- (TECH PREVIEW) MegaFile Restores for Physical Data Sources –
  - Backup/Restore large files faster, help meet SLAs
  - Support for AIX, Linux, Windows for files > 64GB
  - 3x faster restores for physical data source files > 64GB
- (TECH PREVIEW) Service Providers – Pay-Per-Use Consumption –
  - Introducing a consumption-based pricing model for service providers
  - Traditional licensing locks service providers into multi-year license cycles and flat-fee monthly subscriptions
  - Cohesity is the only vendor that allows SPs to choose their own monthly commit and pay only for the software they consume through metered pricing for multiple SP offerings
- Fault Tolerance –
  - New (EC) Erasure Coding configurations – EC 6:2/EC 8:2
- Next Gen User Interface –
  - Global dashboard view
  - Multi-Cluster Monitoring
  - Smart context aware click-throughs
  - Security Dashboard
  - Global Actionable Search
  - Single Cluster Dashboard
  - Physical Usage Reporting for Tenants
  - Physical Usage Reporting for Jobs
  - Dark Theme
  - Enhanced Reporting & Planning
  - Quick Protect
  - Quick Policy
  - One-time Protect
  - Dashboard Heatmaps
  - Reporting – Data Transferred to External Targets
  - Protection Group Run Details
  - Password management to force password changes