Brightmail Gateway 8.0 FAQ - "Virtual" Edition

is this for SMB or corporates?

Hi,

Brightmail Gateway is for everyone, SMB or LARGE enterprise!
It's also included as part of the Symantec Multi-tier Protection bundle (Groupware, Gateway and Endpoint protection).

//ian

Can this be supported on Virtual Box? is there are workaround? Thanks!

VMware ESX and ESXi only.

Kevin

Is it planned to support Brightmail Gateway Virtual Edition on other platforms like Hyper-V?

Thanks

Raúl

Now that Microsoft has taken a good virtualization platform and made it great with Server 2008 R2, It seems like Symantec should be supporting Hyper-V with the Brightmail Gateway Virtual Edition fro Small Business.  After all, SMB customers with smaller budgets are likely to use Hyper-V over VMWare in the first place.

Of course, this is something that is under discussion frequently.  
The main difficulty arises that with Hyper-V, the hardware abstraction is substantially different and would add further costs and time to our QA schedule for each release.
We are researching our next steps in virtualisation, whether it be with Hyper-V, Xen or further VMWare work.

Also, I think there is a thread on the Ideas portal for this.  You should add your comments in there and vote!

//ian

VMWare Server 2.0 is very close to ESXi, and I have it working very well in the environment. Keep in mind it is not officially supported but most of the support people here have the Brightmail Appliance 8.0 working on VMWare server 2.0 running on various platforms such as Windows 7, Server 2003, 2008 and CentOS 5.2.

hi - any more news regarding Hyper-V support since last year? VMimage v9.02 of Brightmail has been out for a while now and would like to know how far away Hyper-V support might be..

Hyper-V is still on our roadmap.  We will need to upgrade our OS kernel before we can commit to a potential release for Hyper-V support.