Antivirus on ESX host??

[jeffobranovich]

Anyone out there running antivirus software on your ESX hosts? Is this recommended? What are the performance implications?

Thanks!

[Dave_Mishchenko]

A few threads to look at

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=307088&#307088

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=700835

[esiebert7625]

I don't recommend it all, as long as your SC is properly secured you should not need it. Putting AV on the SC can cause performance and stability problems.

Anti-virus protection for Service Console - http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=700835

Can a virus escape a VM image - http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=646013

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[Texiwill]

Hello,

As Eric states, this is not really recommended, but if you must put AV on to satisfy your security policy be sure you know what you are scanning. You have Linux ext3 filesystems and VMFS filesystems, perhaps remote filesystems as well.... Scan only the ext3 and infrequently and you can satisfy your requirements. If you are boot from SAN, I would not even do this.

Best regards,

Edward