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Many enterprises have strict security policies in place to detect, clean (remove), or quarantine viruses. This is often performed at the individual user level with per-system anti-virus (AV) solutions from third-party security vendors. Many of these same enterprises use large, centralized storage platforms to contain user home directories or group-project repositories. Because these are the same file types that reside on end-user workstations, viruses must not reside on the storage systems. Because end-user solutions do not work well for centralized storage depots, a different type of solution is required.
Third-party software is often used to scan the storage array through end-user access or manually scheduled policies from a central anti-virus scan server. Common AntiVirus Agent (CAVA) provides an anti-virus solution for Dell PowerScale storage. CAVA uses third-party anti-virus software to identify and eliminate known viruses before they infect files on the system.
This white paper covers the general considerations, configuration, performance, and sizing of the CAVA solution for PowerScale.