We do treat them the same. We just won't count it against you; this is a manual process as there's no automatic way of doing it (yet). Regarding your clones, I misunderstood and thought these were all live machines that you just cloned and gave new names. You are correct in thinking that you don't need to delete the agent if the machine is cloned and only one is active at a time.
Thanks, Jeff Cain Technical Support Analyst Sunbelt Software Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Voice: 1-877-757-4094 Fax: 1-727-562-5199 Web: <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/>> Physical Address: 33 N Garden Ave Suite 1200 Clearwater, FL 33755 United States -------------------------------------------------------- If you do not want further email from us, please forward this message to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the word 'unsubscribe' in the subject of your email. -------------------------------------------------------- Helpful Sunbelt Software Links: Knowledge Base<http://support.sunbeltsoftware.com/> Open a New Support Ticket<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Support/Contact/> Sunbelt Software Product Support Communities<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/communities/> From: N Parr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 11:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare View, How are you handling AV? (Viper to be specific) Why wouldn't you treat a VM license like any other? The console would see it as a normal computer and make it count anyway. Just trying to figure out an easy way to mange it. Could create an agent install package and push it out to the clone via GPO but when we update the base image for the clone with windows updates, new applications, etc it would get wiped out. I guess if the linked clones are getting created with the same naming structure you wouldn't have to worry about deleting the clients from Viper Enterprise server when because it just sees the agents by computer name and not SID or anything. When the new clones came back up they would get the agent installed via GPO again and then start talking to the Enterprise server like normal. My rambling make sense? ________________________________ From: Jeff Cain [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare View, How are you handling AV? (Viper to be specific) 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 Technical Support Analyst Sunbelt Software Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Voice: 1-877-757-4094 Fax: 1-727-562-5199 Web: <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/>> Physical Address: 33 N Garden Ave Suite 1200 Clearwater, FL 33755 United States -------------------------------------------------------- If you do not want further email from us, please forward this message to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the word 'unsubscribe' in the subject of your email. -------------------------------------------------------- Helpful Sunbelt Software Links: Knowledge Base<http://support.sunbeltsoftware.com/> Open a New Support Ticket<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Support/Contact/> Sunbelt Software Product Support Communities<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/communities/> 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. ... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
