Sophos Central Advanced on Hyper-V HOST

Hi Dave Hayes 

We do not support Hyper-V when installed as a Standalone Hypervisor - note that a Standalone Hypervisor is different from a Hyper-V role on standard windows server.

When you say Hyper-V host such as 2012, 2016 or 2019 with Hyper-V role means you have datacenter (or any other) edition and you have enabled Hyper-V role on that server. Am I right? Or do you mean standalone Hyper-V hypervisor?

I hope my comments will help you understand the difference and support for your environment.

Hi Dave Hayes 

We do not support Hyper-V when installed as a Standalone Hypervisor - note that a Standalone Hypervisor is different from a Hyper-V role on standard windows server.

When you say Hyper-V host such as 2012, 2016 or 2019 with Hyper-V role means you have datacenter (or any other) edition and you have enabled Hyper-V role on that server. Am I right? Or do you mean standalone Hyper-V hypervisor?

I hope my comments will help you understand the difference and support for your environment.

Thank you for your response.  Yes. You are correct.  I am NOT referring to the stand alone hypervisor (core). I am referring to a windows server standard or datacenter version running the full GUI and have the hyper v role installed.

Are you saying the configuration I indicated above is supported? If so are there any special exclusions needed for the VHD files?

Thanks again

Hi Dave Hayes 

Yes, your configuration is supported. 

Microsoft has suggested exclusions for Hyper-V server but as the working of hyper-V is identical to Hyper-V server, you can apply the exclusion. 

I'd suggest that if you are not facing any performance issues without exclusions, please don't add exclusions or you can add the file extension excluded listed on that page.