Sophos for Virtual - Agent Install on Gold Image

Hello 

Currently this is how the product works. In your scenario all of the GVMs using the same golden image will be protected by one the SVM regardless if they are on another host.

We are looking at plans for auto discovery, including redundancy and fail over in future enhancements to Sophos for Virtual Environments.

One option is to have a golden image for each of the SVMs.

Thanks 

Mark 

Hi Mark - thanks for the reply.

Do you have an estimated timescale for the enhancements you mentioned ?

We are currently planning the releases and scope, once I have more I can share with this forum. 

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

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. 

Any further update on the timescale for new release ?

Thanks

Hi ULHICTSupport 

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

Hi ULHICTSupport 

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

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

Hi Adam Barnes 

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