Support for generation 2, VHDX, and SCSI adapters, with HyperV WPS products deployment

Products

• Reporter-VA
• ISG Content Analysis
• ISG Proxy

Issue/Introduction

For all that's supported, to deploy ISG-Proxy, ISG-CAS, & ISG-Reporter, all of the WPS, in Hypervisor, please refer to the details within this article.

Environment

WPS/ISG-Proxy/ISG-CAS/Reporter

Resolution

Notes:

Generation 2

The SG VA is compatible with Hyper-V hypervisor when running as a Generation 1 VM. Symantec CAS VA also specifically supports generation 1. While there isn't a direct mention of Generation 1 with the Reporter, the support would be the same. So, for all three referenced products, there is no documented support for generation 2.

 

VHDX

Reporter does not support VHDX disks.

With the ISG-Proxy, please see the below.

The VAP includes the following files:
• The VHDX Disk image, such as ProxySG-disk1

By default, the install script creates fixed-size disks and attaches them to the VA. This operation might take a long time because the disk-creation tool provided by Microsoft zeros-out entire disks. Optionally, the install script can use a third-party tool, VhdxTool, for fast disk creation. If a path to vhdxtool.exe is provided as a parameter to the script, the disks are not be zeroed out:

.\install_vm.ps1 -disk_dir <virtual disk destination directory> - vhdxtool 27 <path to vhdxtool.exe>
Obtain the vhdxtool.exe at: http://systola.com/support/KB100005. This tool requires .NET 4.5. On Windows Server
2012 R2, where this component should be already installed. See the Systola vhdxtool.exe release notes before using
this tool.

IMPORTANT

WARNING VhdxTool is third-party software that is provided by Systola. Use at your own risk. Symantec does not assume responsibility for supporting VhdxTool. IN NO EVENT SHALL Symantec BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

For more, please refer to the deployment guide attached.

For Symantec CAS VA, there is no support information documented for VHDX.

 

SCSI

With ProxySG, there is support for SCSI. Please refer to the attached deployment guide, for the details. With Symantec CAS & Reporter, there is no documented support for SCSI adapters/controllers.