What is the best antivirus solution for VDI?

[amunoz_tico]

Hi everyone...

Could you help me find out the best antivirus solution for VDI enviroment? I made a lab with Symantec Antivirus, but it takes a lot of my bandwidth during the updates.

I read about VMSAFE, but I didn't see an appliance availabled yet.

I'd appreciate your comments!

Regards!

[AndreTheGiant]

Probably VMsafe will be the best solution, but at this time there are only beta or alpha product.

How many client do you have?

Maybe with a multiple repository (for example on a fileserver on each ESX) you can reduce the problem.

Andre

[amunoz_tico]

Hi Andre,

The solution is for a call center, and we estimate more than 300 VMs in the same time frame.

Regards!

[jbruelasdgo]

please take a look at this:

http://www.mcafee.com/us/enterprise/products/virtualization_security/index.html

http://us.trendmicro.com/us/solutions/enterprise/security-solutions/virtualization/

hope this helps you until VMsafe arise (if so provide points accordingly)

regards

Jose B Ruelas

http://aservir.wordpress.com

[amunoz_tico]

Here are the Best Practices by Symantec ... best what??

I think I have to consider other alternative, like McAfee (tks Jose). Now, is there an appliance (software or hardware) compatible with VDI?

Regards

[kopper27]

I am working on deployment and Symantec is giving me a lot of problems

First it was performance issues now this

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1434823#1434823

basically creating desktop pools takes a lot on customazing status and it seems like SEP is blocking it

by the way since you read about vsafe as far as I know Vsafe is for ESX 4 - view 4 and I got esx 3.5