A customer purchased a data protection solution that includes Cohesity and a mixture of HPE...

The management of an HPE Solution with Cohesity is centered around providing a unified, global experience across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. For managing data protection policies, alerting, and operational oversight across one or more Cohesity clusters, the correct tool is Cohesity Helios.

Cohesity Helios is a SaaS-based management platform that provides a "single pane of glass" for the entire Cohesity data estate. According to HPE and Cohesity technical documentation, Helios utilizes machine learning and AI-driven analytics to offer proactive health monitoring and global search capabilities. It allows administrators to define a single set of data protection policies—covering variables like frequency, retention, and replication—and apply them universally across clusters located on-premises (on HPE Alletra 4000 servers), at the edge, or in the public cloud.

In contrast, SpanFS (Option D) is the underlying web-scale distributed file system that powers the Cohesity DataPlatform, but it is not a management tool itself. HPE GreenLake Data Ops Manager (Option B) is part of the HPE Data Services Cloud Console (DSCC) primarily used for managing native HPE Alletra Block and File storage arrays, rather than third-party software-defined platforms like Cohesity. While the solution can be procured via HPE GreenLake Flex (Option A), the operational day-to-day management of the software policies resides within the Helios console to ensure consistency with Cohesity’s broader ecosystem. Helios ensures that as the customer scales their Alletra 4000 footprint, the management of their secondary data remains simplified and policy-driven.