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McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images

Purpose-built security for virtual environments

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Overview

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images — the first dedicated security solution for virtual machines (VMs) — protects your virtual environment and corporate network by automatically scanning, cleaning, and updating VMs before they go online.

VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images offers:

An optimized solution — Developed specifically to work with all major virtualization environments, including Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware.

Scalable security — Provides on-demand protection for an unlimited number of VMs.

Comprehensive, cost-effective protection — Reduces IT overhead with integrated protection for pre-production (testing and development) and production (disaster recovery) virtual environments.

Features & Benefits

Secure your VMs and protect your enterprise

Automatically scan, clean, and update virtual machines (VMs) while they’re offline to eliminate the risk of dormant VMs threatening your corporate network.

Save money with automatic updates

Count on automatic, real-time, anti-malware updates via Artemis Technology from McAfee Labs to maintain the latest threat protection without bringing VMs online, thus allowing your IT staff to focus on other issues.

Save time with unified security management

Minimize IT efforts and reduce operating costs with common security management via the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) platform, for both physical and virtual environments.

Save trouble with a single solution

Reduce IT migration issues with one security solution that supports all top virtualization vendors, including Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware.

Facilitate real-time disaster recovery

Secure offline VMs at secondary sites.

Support regulatory compliance

Scan and update offline virtual images periodically to enable archiving for longer periods.

System Requirements

These are minimum system requirements. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.

Supported Operating Systems

  • Microsoft Windows Vista base or higher (includes 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 1 (SP1) or higher (no support for XP 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (includes 64-bit; no support for Server Cores)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or higher: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (no support for Server 2003 64-bit)

Supported VMware Images

  • Supports images using the Virtual Machine Disk Format (VMDK) and Open Virtualization Format (OVF) specification
  • Microsoft Windows 7, all versions
  • Microsoft Windows Vista base or higher (includes 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows XP with SP1 or higher (includes 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 with SP4
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (includes 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (includes 64-bit)

Supported Microsoft Virtual PC Images

  • Supports images using the Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk Image Format specification
  • Microsoft Windows Vista base or higher (includes 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows XP with SP1 or higher (includes 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 with SP4
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (includes 64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or higher: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (includes 64-bit)

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