As updates are distributed to SEP and SEPM on VMware virtual machines
Updated: 01 Jul 2011 | 5 comments
Hello
I would like to inform me, about how the update behavior when SEPM servers installed on VMware virtual machines, if they are installed on the virtual servers or the primary SEPM and this distributes the same, or is necessary to GPU.
thank you very much for your attention
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Not sure what you're asking
I've seen this (and another thread asking what seems like the same question), but I'm not clear on what you're asking for.
I think you're asking if you should have SEPMs, that reside in VMs on a physical machine, use GUPs or LiveUpdate. If that's the case, that's easy...SEPMs can't use GUPs, they have to either update from across the internet from Symantec servers, or use a LiveUpdate Administrator server.
If this isn't what you're asking...can you please clarify?
It does not matter much even
It does not matter much even if the SEPM is installed on a virtuall server. If you have a large environment, you may keep a GUP or if you have some workstaions on a different site you can assign a GUP. But this has nothing to do with SEPM being installed on a virtuall machine.
If you have GUP installed the workstations will first communicate with th SEPM and then it will be directed to GUP machine to get the updates.
If this does not answer you question, Please tell us exactly what is the issue that you have.
Regards
Anup Sudhakaran
Correction to the question
Good afternoon
hi Anup1304, the question is that I have the following concern: If we have for example one SEPM on Vmware, and additionally have to say the 100 virtual machines connected to the how updates are distributed in this virtual environment.
Thank and advanced.
Depends on how you have the virtual NICs set up
If the VM client has a NIC that's bridged...that is, the VM has its own IP address on the network, traffic will pass from the SEPM through the network to the client.
If the VM client is in NAT or Host-only, the traffic will pass through the virtual network that's set up by VMWare, rather than through the actual network.
In either case, clients will update over a network of one fashion or another.
Distribution not impacted by VM
The way updates are distributed is the same if you are using either physical or virtual.
Normally, clients get their updates directly from SEPM. SEPM (normally) creates a small delta file that all the clients download.
If you setup a GUP policy, you can have the clients dowload this same file from the GUP machine instead of from the SEPM server. But the basic idea is the same -- and it makes no difference if you are using virtual machines or physical machines.
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