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During VMworld 2009 I talked to Trend Micro about their virtualization protection solutions. Some of which are based in part on VMware’s VMSafe APIs. Trend told me about their protection against virus and malware attacks, network intrusion, firewall integrity, and application threats in VMware virtual machines (VMs). After researching some more about what I heard in the Trend booth at the conference, I discovered Trend also offers a free product, VM Protection, for a maximum of 100 guests.

Antivirus and Malware

At the Trend Micro booth I was introduced to Core Protection for VMware Virtual Machines, and I learned that although virtual machines still require Trend Real Time Agents (RTA) installed in each VM, the protection workload is now isolated to a dedicated “scanning virtual machine”.

The virtualization RTA on each guest is a specialized version responsible only for scheduling and status monitoring, and is not the same agent installed if using Trend’s physical server protection. The volumes and files of each guest are actually scanned directly on the VMFS datastore by the scanning VM, and not performed by the RTA running on each virtual server.

The following diagram was copied from the Trend Core Protection data sheet and shows the logical design of the solution. Read the rest of this entry »

I am getting ready for the VMworld 2008 Day 2 General Session and sitting at the official bloggers table this morning. Thanks to John Troyer and the team over at VMTN and Planet v12n for getting this set up. We even have a solid wi fi connection so live blogging looks promising. Look for updates to this post every 15 minutes or so.

Lights are down and the opening video is rolling. Today promises to be more about the new technical features.

Stephen Herrod, CTO of VMware, takes the stage and has started the session. Stephen confirms that his presentation will be about the technology behind the VDC-OS.

He is starting by going through the 3 infrastructure layers. Read the rest of this entry »