Endpoint Protection

Dear Partner,


Is installing SEP on vmware virtual machine supported configuration?


In additiona, if I install the vcenter on the same machine in SEP, it will say there is some ports is conflicting and need to change the port to another port, is there any supported technote to say that running  SEP together with vmware vcenter is not a supported configuration and is not recommended?

Thanks

Hi

You can install SEP on Vmware

As far as for the ports the following link will give you the brief detail of all the ports used by SEP

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/docid/2007091010224248

VMware support

Symantec software is supported in VMware environments. The following table shows the supported VMware configurations for Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 and Symantec Network Access Control 11.0.


Symantec software VMware support
Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager, Console, and database components The management server is supported on the following versions of VMware:

VMware WS 5.0 (workstation) or later
VMware GSX 3.2 (enterprise) or later
VMware ESX 2.5 (workstation) or later

The management server is supported on the following guest VMware operating systems:

Windows 2000 Professional, Server, Advanced Server with Service Pack 3 or later
Windows 2003 Server, Enterprise Server Web Edition
Windows 2003 Server Windows x64 Edition
Windows XP Home, Professional Edition
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Symantec Endpoint Protection and Symantec Network Access Control clients The client components are supported on the following versions of VMware:

VMware WS 5.0 (workstation) or later
VMware GSX 3.2 (enterprise) or later
VMware ESX 2.5 (workstation) or later

The client components are supported on the following guest VMware operating systems:

Windows 2000 Professional, Server, Advanced Server
Windows 2003 Server, Enterprise Server Web Edition
Windows 2003 Server Windows x64 Edition
Windows XP Home, Professional Edition
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition


http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/docid/2007082112580548

@Chris

Yes. There is a conflict.

SEPM (by default) uses ports 9090, 8443, and 8005, with the database server running on port 2638. VMWare's Web Access uses ports 8308, 8308, and 8009, with all three specifying "redirectPort" as 8443.  But that shouldn't bother you as both applications allow you to change the port.

In SEP each of the ports on the server can be customized.

TCP Port 80: change the port in IIS and add “scm.iis.http.port=XXX" in conf.properties
TCP Port 433: change the port in IIS and add “scm.iis.https.port=XXX" in conf.properties
TCP Port 8433: change the port using the Server Configuration Assistant wizard
TCP Port 9090: change the port in server.xml and add “scm.server.http.port =XXX" in conf.properties
UDP Port 1812: add “scm.radius.port =XXX" in conf.properties.

The conf.properties file is located in %Program Files%\Symantec\Symantec Policy Manager\tomcat\etc\
The server.xml file is located in %Program Files%\Symantec\Symantec Policy Manager\tomcat\conf\

Dear sandeep & Team,

Nice post. I got similar issue here.
 

SEPM (by default) uses ports 9090, 8443, and 8005, with the database server running on port 2638. VMWare's Web Access uses ports 8308, 8308, and 8009, with all three specifying "redirectPort" as 8443. But that shouldn't bother you as both applications allow you to change the port.


SEPM uses 8443,  do you mean if during installation of vcenter, the web http service port  change to 8445 should be fine? Is that what are you tryiing to say?

Thanks

Exactly......That should be perfectly fine or the other way around...for SEPM.