topic Re: vscan Scanners in ONTAP Discussions

vscan Scanners

kaha365 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:03:23 GMT

Hello,

Does anybody knows if we can install vscan scanners on Vmware Virtual Machine or is it required to have dedicated physical windows servers.

Then how to monitor the Netapp file activity to define the correct number of vscan Scanners ?

Thanks

Re: vscan Scanners

Mjizzini — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 09:03:57 GMT

Yes, you can install vscan scanners on Vmware Virtual Machine.

Defining the correct number of vscan Scanners will depend on more than one aspect like Vscan provider, server resources, filer, and user access.

Outside sizing tools, running "vserver cifs session show" will be a quick way to check for file use.

You can start with a primary and a secondary. New VMs can be deployed and added to the scanner pool if needed.

Antivirus configuration ONTAP 9

NetApp Technical Report 4304: Antivirus Solution for Clustered Data ONTAP Symantec

NetApp Technical Report 4312: Antivirus Solution for Clustered Data ONTAP Trend Micro

Re: vscan Scanners

kaha365 — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 14:35:23 GMT

Thank you Mjizzini,

Currently we have more than 30k open CIFS files and about 4k users using 5 SVMs. With this first evaluation Could it be possible to estimate a number of Vscanner or do we need to go dipper in the analyse.

Then what metrics do we need to monitor ?

And do you know what is the maximum eligible "vscan latency" (in sec. or milisec.) without performance decrease for the file client access.