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Best Practice for secure HyperV configuration
Our design and deployment teams were having a debate on the most secure way to deploy HyperV, particularly with respect to Ransomware attacks and protecting from encryption. There seems to be two...
Jason Childs
Hi Jason.
I know this is a old post - but just wanted to give you my advice here, from a lesson learned in 2020 🙂
Anti-malware does not belong inside Host Management OS.
Someone, at our company - decided to install Bitdefender for protection, and my oh my - what a pain.
I regret it tenfold, that I wasn't able to avoid it from being installed on our Server 2019 Core with Hyper-V, even though I fought hard and long.
It caused a massive Cluster breakdown - and it took us long, before we were able to identify Bitdefender as the real reason for the breakdown.
So, there are plenty of other suggestions on how to protect your Hyper-V Servers - but Anti-Malware software is surely not one of the ways.