Abstract

McAfee, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the effectiveness of McAfee Total Protection (ToPS) for Virtualization, managed by ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) 4.0, in providing a comprehensive suite of security services to virtualized Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 environments — online and offline — under both VMware and Microsoft’s Hyper-V server virtualization platforms.

Tolly engineers built virtual server environments using both VMware ESX Server version 3.5 and Microsoft Hyper-V. In these environments they deployed virtual instances of Microsoft’s Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. Engineers then exercised an extensive set of functions to illustrate that McAfee could provide extensive management and protection of virtual server environments in both online and offline states.