We are running McAfee on all of our filers (F940c + F740) and have had good experience.  We recently upgraded to version 7.1 which allows a single scanner to scan multiple filers.  Prior to this version, the restriction was as mentioned below.  ONTAP 6.4.2P6 (and others I'm sure) also allow us to designate scanners as either primary or secondary which lets us do a poor-man's load-balancing.

With the older version, we had two scanners per filer for redundancy.  Now we have all six scanners set to scan all 3 filers, so we don't alert until at least 3 scanners go off-line at the same time.  They will go off-line when the virus definitions are updated, so we just stagger their updates and never have to worry about it.

Disclaimer....I've never seen the products from other vendors; we're a McAfee shop (...the devil you know...).

Jeff Mery, MCP
National Instruments

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"Palmer, Jason (EMEA)" <jason.palmer@uk.mci.com>
Sent by: owner-toasters@mathworks.com

04/02/2004 10:29 AM

To
"'Jack Lyons'" <jack.lyons@martinagency.com>, "'toasters@mathworks.com'" <toasters@mathworks.com>
cc
Subject
RE: AntiVirus Solutions





Hi Jack,

We are currently using both vendors.  In my view, a mixture of the both allows for coverge, if one of the vendors are a bit slow in reacting and releasing an update to cover a new virus type.

The latest offering from Trend allows for one scanner to scan more than one NAS Appliance, which was a restriction that was becomming a pain to live with.  I have had not seen McAfee for NetApps in action, but from reading the documentation it behaves in a similar way.

Generally we run McAfee on Local client machines and Trend on Servers, and currently we are serving a user base of 5000+ users accross EMEA and have had no problems.

Regards,

Jason
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com
[mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On Behalf Of Jack Lyons
Sent: 02 April 2004 14:41
To: 'toasters@mathworks.com'
Subject: AntiVirus Solutions

We are looking for a virus scanning solution for our FAS960 with 350 users
accessing via CIFS.

Trend Micro is a little cheaper than McAfee but we are a McAfee shop.  But I
have also heard that Trend Micro is better for NetApp but I can't find any
specifics?

Can anyone share their experience with either product?

Thanks
Jack


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