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Sophos for Virtual - Agent Install on Gold Image

ULHICTSupport

We are trialing Sophos for virtual. We have two ESXi Clusters with four nodes in each cluster. I have deployed a SSVM onto each of the ESXi Hosts but when you install the Agent you have to specify the IP address. If I use the IP address of the SSVM on Host one for the install on the Gold image and then deploy 200 vm's from this gold image, am i right in thinking these will all report to the SSVM on ESX host one rather balancing the load across the SSVM's on the ESX hosts they are running on ?   

Thanks in advance.



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  • 0 in reply to MarkToshack

    Hello Mark,

    so... one further question to this topic. How many guest VMs can one SSVM protect? The example of 200 VMs was given - we are planning to deploy 1200 VMs with SSVM protection. We are already sad that we can't optain redundancy but do we get a load problem too with one SSVM?

     

    Thank you in advance

  • 0 in reply to DennisTschirschwitz

    Hello 

    It is difficult to determine how many GVMs can be protected by one SVM unless we know the environment you will create. ie Size of the physical server; what is the resource split of the GVMs, what the GVMS are doing; your network setup etc.

     

    We find, for the most part, that as long as the virtual environment as a whole can cope with a multitude of VMs then SVE will not cause any larger overhead. 

    SVM scan times do improve with more GVMs as we utilize caching on both GVM and SVM. So if the SVMs find a file that is clean it adds it to its own cache but also updates all the GVMs caches - so before a GVM sends a file to be scanned, it will check its cache to see if the file is in. As more and more GVMs are being scanned, the number of files needed to be scanned are greatly reduced. 

  • 0 in reply to MarkToshack

    Any further update on the timescale for new release ?

     

    Thanks

  • 0 in reply to ULHICTSupport

    Hi  

    Thanks for the reminder! 

    Version 1.2, which will have the failover capability, will be released Q1 CY18. 

    Once the documentation has been completed I will post to the forum to give you a heads up on how the new functionality will work. 

    Thanks 

    Mark

  • 0 in reply to MarkToshack

    Thanks for the update. Do you know whether this will be released before or after SAV for vShield is out of support?

  • +1 in reply to Adam Barnes

    Hi  

    We will be releasing before the end of support for SAV for vShield. 

    If you haven't migrated yet I suggest you run Sophos for Virtual Environments in a test environment - or on a small prod system- to get a feel for it and then plan migration once v1.2 is released.

     

    cheers

    Mark

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