Server Endpoint v Virtual Environment Protection for single VM environments

Question

Hi, 
 
 So im trying to weigh up if its worth installing the VM server and agent on our virtual servers. 
 Most of our environments consist of either a host and single VM or a DC/File/Print and then an app sever running as a VM in Hyper-V. 
 Would having another VM installed to handle the scanning load in Hyper-V be worth it over the endpoint installed? in single VM environments? thus far we have had no issues with running the standard server endpoint on our VM's. 
 
 Thanks, 
 sL4sha

MarkToshack · Accepted Answer

Hello sL4sha 
 The superb thing about Sophos Server Protection licenses is the ability to mix and match between Standard and Advanced on Sophos Central. 
 So you can get Advanced licenses for your more critical servers for the extra features and use standard for those that are more restricted. Also you can use the entitlement to run the full agent or install Sophos for Virtual Environments on your Guest VMs. 
 In your case I think running the full agent on the single Guest VM environment would be sufficient. As you alluded to, what SVE does offer is low footprint on the Guest VMs as the updates only go to the SVM, which again is a low resource VM. But as you only have one GVM on each host the resources are not as restricted. 
 Would you every think of consolidating all your VMs to a few hosts? 
 SVE 1.2 coming in mid Feb, there will be failover capabilities, which would be beneficial if you have a lot of GVMs spread over a few hosts and SVMs. They will connect to another SVM to get the protection automatically if the original SVM is down. so if you were to consolidate all your VMs this is when SVE would be very beneficial. 
 thanks 
 Mark