Cohesity Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) is a set of web-based tools that optimizes the end to end experience for Cohesity products. SORT offers information for understanding products, eases installation and upgrade, improves operational efficiency, recommends configurations to align to best practices, and enables you to manage the products proactively.

Data collector
Data Collectors

Prepare for your next installation or upgrade, identify risks, and obtain product inventory

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My SORT
My SORT

Manage reports, track system configurations, and subscribe for real time updates

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2025-11-11
SORT 7.5 for Cohesity is available!

SORT has delivered another release with the following updates for Cohesity.

Highlights and deliverables of SORT 7.5 release:

  • Company redirect picker for user
  • Separate Cohesity only logical instance of SORT
  • MyCohesity SSO login for user
  • Support for migration from Oracle to Salesforce system
  • Security improvements: CodeIgniter and PHP upgrades
2025-08-07
SORT 7.4 for Cohesity is available!

SORT has delivered another release with the following updates for Cohesity.

Highlights of SORT 7.4 release

  • PLS PRQ review approval
  • Security improvements
  • Updated SORT 'Terms of Service'
  • Process improvements and Operational efficiency

For Cohesity

  • Product name change from 'Veritas Alta SaaS protection' to 'Alta SaaS protection'
  • Merged product documentation for NetBackup and Alta Data Protection
  • Fixed missing documents for NetBackup & Alta Data Protection
  • Added support of NetBackup 11.0.0.1 MR
  • Added Small Form-factor Pluggable support in Appliance Compatibility List
  • Hosted a Business Value Quick Tool Creation page for Sales
  • Fixed blank Flex Appliance API Documentation 

As part of our Modernization Initiative, we have deprecated all legacy in-house tools used in the build and release pipeline. Starting with this release, the deployment process has been fully transitioned to the industry-standard Jenkins platform.

While this change does not introduce direct functional enhancements for end-users, it significantly streamlines internal processes, improves maintainability, and aligns with best practices in DevOps automation.

2025-05-15
SORT 7.3 for Cohesity is available!

SORT has delivered another release with the following updates for Cohesity.

In-time product release support

  • Supported NetBackup 11.0.
  • Supported NetBackup 10.5.0.1
  • Supported Access Appliance 8.4
  • Supported Flex Appliance 6.1
  • Supported NetBackup Appliance 5.5.0.1
  • Supported Flex Scale 3.5

For NetBackup

  • Added support in Install/Upgrade Checklist for NetBackup 11.0, 10.5.0.1
  • Added support in SORT Data Collectors for NetBackup 11.0, 10.5.0.1
  • Added support in product and platform lookup  for NetBackup 11.0, 10.5.0.1
  • Added product features for NetBackup 11.0 at NetBackup Key Features of History Releases
  • Updated SCL Checkers for NetBackup 11.0
  • Fixed Windows Data Collector crashing issue
  • Published product documents and API documents

For Appliances

  • Added support in install/upgrade checklist for NetBackup Appliance 5.5.0.1
  • Updated Appliance Compatibility List for Access Appliance, Flex Appliance, NetBackup Appliance, Flex Scale
  • Published documents for appliances
  • Fixed missing documents for Flex 6.0
2024-12-10
SORT 7.2 is available!

SORT has delivered another release with the following update.

Veritas

  •  Supported NetBackup 10.5
  •  Supported Flex Appliance 5.1
  •  Published NetBackup 10.5 API Swagger UI
  •  Updated hierarchical layout for Flex 5.0 API Swagger UI
  •  Updated SNMP MIB files for Flex

Arctera

  •  Updated InfoScale HCL Checkers for 8.0.x for AIX 7.3 qualification for "GreenLake for block storage"
  •  Updated SCL Central page for Databases for InfoScale 8.0.2 support with RHEL 9,OL 9 and OracleRAC19c
  •  VxExplorer enhancements

Co-Branded SORT Features

  • Co-branded SORT will continue to offer features and services for both Arctera and Veritas products.
  • Arctera-Specific: Arctera customers can also access THIS LINK to focus exclusively on Arctera products.
2024-06-17
NetBackup 10.4.0.1 was generally available!