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Installing a Symantec Endpoint Protection Security Virtual Appliance

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It's possible to integrate SEP with Vshield and no additonal product is required just need to install additonal componenets provided by Symantec.

The Symantec Endpoint Protection Security Virtual Appliance is a Linux-based virtual appliance that you install on a VMware ESX/ESXi server. The Security Virtual Appliance integrates with VMware's vShield Endpoint. The Shared Insight Cache runs in the appliance and lets Windows-based Guest Virtual Machines (GVMs) with the Symantec Endpoint Protection client installed share scan results. Identical files are trusted and therefore skipped across all of the GVMs on the ESX/ESXi host. Shared Insight Cache improves full scan performance by reducing disk I/O and CPU usage.

You can deploy the vShield-enabled Shared Insight Cache into a VMware infrastructure on each host. The vShield-enabled Shared Insight Cache makes file scanning more efficient. You can monitor the Security Virtual Appliance and client status in Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager.

A vShield-enabled Shared Insight Cache runs in a Symantec Endpoint Protection Security Virtual Appliance. Windows-based Guest Virtual Machines (GVMs) use VMware vShield Endpoint to access the Shared Insight Cache.

Note: Symantec supports the use of a vShield-enabled Shared Insight Cache only in VMware ESX/ESXi infrastructures.Reference article:

Please refer to the following articles on how to install, configure the Security Virtual Appliance:

About the Symantec Endpoint Protection Security Virtual Appliance

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO81080

What do I need to do to install a Security Virtual Appliance?

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO81110

VMware software requirements to install a Symantec Security Virtual Appliance

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO81081

Configuring the Symantec Endpoint Protection Security Virtual Appliance installation settings file

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO81082

Installing a Symantec Endpoint Protection Security Virtual Appliance

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO81083

Uninstalling a Symantec Endpoint Protection Security Virtual Appliance

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO81087

       So if we're currently using the Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition (v.4.0) #4GMSPZF0-EL1GH, we're already licensed to take advantage of Symantec's Virtual Appliance to protect our VDI environment? We just have to make sure that the license count doesn't go over our allocated seats?

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