Symantec Protection Engine for Network Attached Storage
Protect mission critical storage with fast, scalable, and on-demand threat detection and content control.
Symantec Protection Engine for Network Attached Storage provides scalable, high-performance threat detection services. These services protect valuable data stored on network attached storage (NAS) devices, providing increased scanning performance and improved detection capabilities for protection against multi-blended threats. Protection Engine includes Symantec's industry-leading malware protection for fast, scalable, and reliable content scanning services. These help organizations protect their data and storage systems against the ever-growing malware threat landscape. Malware definitions and engines are updated automatically with no interruption in malware scanning using Symantec LiveUpdate. Definitions can also be distributed centrally to multiple deployments utilizing the included Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator application.
Supported Network Attached Storage (NAS) Devices
Supported NAS platform vendors include:
- BlueArc®
- EMC
- Hitachi®
- NetApp
- Sun
Supported Operating Systems
32-bit OS
- Windows® 2008 (English and Japanese)
- Windows Server® 2003 R2 (English and Japanese)
- Windows® 2003 (English and Japanese)
- Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 5.x
- Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 6.x
- SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11
64-bit OS
- Windows® 2012 (English)
- Windows® 2008 (English and Japanese)
- Windows® 2008 R2 (English and Japanese)
- Windows Server® 2003 R2 (English and Japanese)
- Windows® 2003 (English and Japanese)
- Solaris (SPARC) 10 and 11
- Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 6.x
- Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 5.x
- SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11
All the supported operating systems (Windows and Linux) are supported under:
- VMware® vSphere Hypervisor™ v4.1 or later
Supported Browsers
- Mozilla Firefox® 10 or later
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 8 (SP1) or later
Minimum Hardware Configuration
- Intel or AMD Server Grade Single Processor Quad Core
systems or higher (Windows or Linux) or UltraSPARC (Solaris)
- Java™ Runtime Environment 6 or 7
- 4 GB random-access memory (RAM)
- 5 GB hard disk space available (10 GB of hard disk space if using URL Filtering)
- 1 NIC with static IP address running TCP/IP
- 100 Mbps Ethernet link (1 Gbps recommended)
