Product guide

Introduction

McAfee Management for Optimized Virtual Environments AntiVirus (McAfee

MOVE AntiVirus) is an

anti-virus solution for virtual environments. It removes the need to install an anti-virus application on

every virtual machine (VM), yet provides the protection and performance needed for your organization

requirements.

Traditional security solutions for virtual machines need anti-virus applications running on every virtual

machine (VM) on a hypervisor, contributing to high disk CPU and memory usage. This reduces VM

density on each hypervisor.

McAfee MOVE AV solves this issue by offloading all on-access scanning to a dedicated VM that runs

McAfee

VirusScan

Enterprise. As a result, traditional anti-virus applications are not required on each

guest VM, improving performance and increasing VM density per hypervisor.

McAfee MOVE AV brings advanced malware protection to your virtualized environments, and integrates

real-time threat intelligence with security management across your physical and virtual infrastructure.

McAfee MOVE AV provides two deployment options: Agentless and Multi-Platform. Both deployment

options provide consistent protection, and are managed and reported by McAfee

ePolicy Orchestrator

(McAfee ePO

™

) .

Agentless

This solution integrates with VMware vShield using VMware vShield Endpoint. It addresses the

challenges of protecting your virtual environment and keeping it free of malware without a McAfee

Agent, resulting in easy deployment and setup.

The Agentless deployment option:

• Uses the VMware vShield Endpoint API to receive scan requests from VMs on the hypervisor.

• Relies on McAfee

VirusScan

Enterprise for Linux for SVA protection and updates.

• Uses McAfee ePO to manage the MOVE configuration on the SVA.

• Leverages the McAfee Agent for policy and event handling.

• Uses McAfee ePO for reports on viruses that are discovered on the VMs.

This document covers installation, configuration, and product usage information for McAfee MOVE AV

(Agentless) .

Multi-Platform

This solution removes the need to install an anti-virus application on every VM, and it is the original

agent-based deployment option.

The Multi-Platform deployment option offloads all scanning to a dedicated VM — an offload scan server

— that runs McAfee VirusScan Enterprise software. Guest VMs are no longer required to run anti-virus

software locally, which improves performance for anti-virus scanning, and increases VM density per

hypervisor.

McAfee MOVE AntiVirus (Agentless) 3.6.0 Product Guide