So my customer would like to scan at least once a night his files on NFS ( we talk here about some PB)
So far it's easy, what is confusing for me that he scan scans every night almost the same amount of files.
- to check which files i would have always to check the vscan engines (where i dont have access) but maybe someone has experience and could simply confirm that its not always the same files or vise
versa 🙂
- i saw also the strange behavior that i have 2 vscan engines in my primary pool, but my task seems to
send the scan request only to 1 scan engine which gives then feedback that he is too busy. Which gets
repeated 6000times.
I would also appreciate any feedback or experience with vscan on-demand-task since it seems no one using this awesome feature. 🙂
Thanks 🙂
#vscan on-demand-task for nfs
kindred wind
fair quest
Hi @kindred wind , Thanks for being part of the NetApp Discord! I don't have direct experience with on-demand but while we wait for other replies, have you or the customer checked out this link? https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/antivirus/best-practices-configure-off-box-antivirus-functionality-concept.html
On a general note, scanning PB-scale amounts of data would warrant more than 2 vscan engines, I don't know if there is a prescribed number but would be worth doing some research on.
kindred wind
yes 🙂 our on access vscan is after some changes running quite good. From the best practice sind i think we are good but the real experience is missing and being confident that really everything is scanned after a while. Since it is really hard to find someone who is using that feature for NFS even over NetApp Colleagues here from NetApp Germany i'am just giving it a try.
fair quest
Thanks for the additional context and I agree, knowing when the scan is done or at least what has been scanned in the current pass, would be useful. Which vendor are they using for the scanning?
kindred wind
Symantec