May 16, 2013 at 6:57 am
hi guys, my vm admin wants to run AV at the host and not at the guest level. what do i need to ask the vm admin to make sure he is adhering to sql server best practices?
cheers
May 16, 2013 at 7:40 am
You need to exclude many things...
.bak
.mdf
.ndf
.ldf
.log
.trc
sqlsrvr.exe
IF Vscan starts to scan your live database files it will bring sql server to its knees.
May 16, 2013 at 8:44 am
Here some info from MS.
May 20, 2013 at 12:09 pm
Ask how an antivirus running on the host is going to catch malware running inside a guest? If you get a reasonable sounding answer, ask for a test to be run - many AV products also default to not scanning excessively large files, like virtual guest disks.
May 21, 2013 at 7:47 am
We were looking at this and stopped when we figured out that exclusions are at the host level and are not customizable at the guest level. (With the product we were looking at) This will work fine if all of your databases are on the same hosts but I fear for your I/O subsystem if that is the case.
It looked good on paper but we didn't want to be on the bleeding edge.
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