Is anyone running that?  With 80% of our server infrastructure virtualized
it may be an interesting offering.  Currently we are running McAfee and EPo.

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Jonathan <[email protected]> wrote:

> I know you said you're running Hyper-V, however anyone reading this thread
> might be interested to read about this offering from VMware....
>
> http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vmware-vshield-endpoint-ds-en.pdf
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Miller Bonnie L. <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> You're going to configure the AV to not scan certain files, including your
>> VMs.
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961804
>>
>> It is no fun when your VMs disappear.
>>
>> -Bonnie
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 11:57 AM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: Virtualization and AntiVirus question.
>>
>> Hey all, general AV and VM question for you.
>>
>> If I have a server running Hyper-V services and a virtual server inside...
>> both running XYZ antivirus... If I a file is scanned on the VM, does that
>> mean the physical machine will do a scan as well? Does this mean there is
>> double the IO load on the filesystem?
>>
>> Obviously there would be 2x the memory overhead, 1x for the physical host
>> running the AV client, 1x for the virtual one.
>>
>> But would the on-access scanner have to scan the file on both machines?
>> Are there some AVs out there which are "VM aware" and handle this situation?
>> Or does this just never occur, as the physical machine never really sees a
>> file accessed on the VM?
>>
>> Just curious.
>>
>>
>> --Matt Ross
>> Ephrata School District
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