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Endpoint solution for VDi

Dekkar

Hi, we are moving to a VDI solution and we currently run Sophos on our systems.

Our new VDi setup will run from a golden image, and provision VMs on a daily basis, so Im not too sure of the best approach to having AV on them.

As users log off the VMs they are destroyed, and a new one is spun up. 

Does sophos have some instructions on how to set up their endpoint software in this kind of envoronment?

Thanks,

Nathan

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    Hi Christian, I've gone through the documentation, which makes me believe that everything I want to do is possible. However I'm still not clear on one thing:

    Say our VDI servers create 50 VMs from the master image, and I have sophos pre-installed. Im presuming that these 50 VMs will connect to the Enterprise server and recieve policies and updates.

    At the end of the day, as people log off these VMs they are deleted, the server creates 50 more VMs, with the same names, in the same AD folder.

    Will the Enterprise Server even recognise that these machines are new or different? Will the Enterprise Server Console just fill up with hundreds of deleted VMs?

    We looked at other AV solutions, but they said this wasnt possible, as each VM will have its on unique identifier, and the console will get confused as to which machine is which, as they are all from the same master image. And then when they all get re-created, there will be more problems.

    Thanks,
    Nathan

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    Hi Christian, I've gone through the documentation, which makes me believe that everything I want to do is possible. However I'm still not clear on one thing:

    Say our VDI servers create 50 VMs from the master image, and I have sophos pre-installed. Im presuming that these 50 VMs will connect to the Enterprise server and recieve policies and updates.

    At the end of the day, as people log off these VMs they are deleted, the server creates 50 more VMs, with the same names, in the same AD folder.

    Will the Enterprise Server even recognise that these machines are new or different? Will the Enterprise Server Console just fill up with hundreds of deleted VMs?

    We looked at other AV solutions, but they said this wasnt possible, as each VM will have its on unique identifier, and the console will get confused as to which machine is which, as they are all from the same master image. And then when they all get re-created, there will be more problems.

    Thanks,
    Nathan

    :58159
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