We do not run anti-virus software in our VMs. The main reason we don't is that we felt there are negligible security benefits while there are significant performance gains.
I should also mention that we really significantly restrict which users can create images. I would be more concerned about this if we opened up the image creation privileges to more people. -- Aaron Coburn Systems Administrator and Programmer Academic Technology Services, Amherst College [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> On Nov 30, 2012, at 10:03 AM, "Waldron, Michael H" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: We are running anti-virus on our VMs because our security organization insists on it. We do have it configured however not to run scheduled scans to reduce excess pounding on our backend storage. We run a scan when initially creating the image. Since the VM always reverts back to a clean image after a reservation, this satisfies our security group. Mike Waldron Systems Specialist ITS - Research Computing Center University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ________________________________ From: Hechler, Adam [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 9:56 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: using AV in virtual machines Hello, Can the rest of you running VCL in production tell me if you’re running Anti-Virus software in your VMs? Can you explain briefly why you are or are not? We’re trying to determine if we should install AV in our images or not. Thank you, Adam - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Adam Hechler Senior Analyst /PC Systems Administrator Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 275 Windsor Street Hartford, CT 06120 USA Ph: 860-548-2446 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Web: http://www.ewp.rpi.edu<http://www.ewp.rpi.edu/> <image001.jpg><http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rensselaer-Hartford-Campus/216532895053858> <image002.jpg><https://twitter.com/#!/RPI_Hartford> <image003.jpg><http://www.youtube.com/user/RPIHartford> <image004.png><http://rpihartford.blogspot.com/>
