N Parr,
I am assuming here that you are using VIPRE Enterprise. I would
recommend protecting each clone with VIPRE as the growth from definitions would
be minimal, this is the best way to protect your systems and any machines they
are connected to. I would also say that you should reinstall the VIPRE agent
after you clone the machine to prevent the Enterprise Console from confusing
the machines as they'll have the same agent GUID in the console. As far as
licensing goes, I don't believe we hold VM installs against you.
Thanks,
Jeff Cain
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From: N Parr [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 11:06 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMWare View, How are you handling AV? (Viper to be specific)
So does anyone have any pointers on this? Are you just not worrying about it
since you can wipe the linked clones out at any time if they get infected? I'm
sill worried about handling outbreak protection. Don't care if the clone gets
hosed but I don't want all my clones getting infected with something and trying
to spread it around. If you install AV on the base image and don't use
persistent clones then they will have to update signatures every time they boot
from the day the base image was created. If you use persistent clones then
their deltas will grow because of signatures being added every day. And then
you've got licensing and agents on linked clones trying to update from the
enterprise server with a pc name that is different than the base image they
were created from. I don't think a lot of AV vendors have really thought this
type of situation through.
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