Feature Request: Malware-Engine Role

[lukklin]

Hi Team,

would it be possible to implement a role like mount server or guest-interaction-proxy also for the malware engine?

During SureBackup I often see the single scan entity as a bottleneck, preventing parallelism:

and also sometime as root-course for failures of SureBackup runs with many VMs

27.10.2024 05:35:27 Failed Scanning for viruses 24:00:18
27.10.2024 05:35:28 Failed [Antivirus] Unable to acquire antivirus resource. 24:00:10

What are your thoughts?

Thanks,
Lukas

[Dima P.]

Hello Lukas,

Thank you for your feedback! The current AV scanning is happening at a mount server, so it's a dedicated role already.

27.10.2024 05:35:28 Failed [Antivirus] Unable to acquire antivirus resource. 24:00:10

Any chance you have a case id to review?

[lukklin]

Hi Dima,

yes, I know, but this limits the ability to parallelize scans. Since the mount server is a 1:1 mapping to the repo.

Unfortunately, I don't have a case id..

Let' me elaborate on this:
In this Setup is an "All in one" physical veeam server used. So repo and mount server are all on one box.
The customer would like to have his backups malware scanned and consistency checked using SureBackupLite in addition to normal SureBackup runs.

Due to the design, the SureBackupLite runs on the physical veeam server, basically around the clock, because of the limitation of only one malware engine.
Negative side effects include effects on response from the console, negative impacts to replication- and backup-jobs duration and throughput. Also, database issues of the config db..

In this setup I have an exclusive DR Host hosting the replicas, the SureBackup lab and a local veaam proxy. This machine is idling all day long.
What I want to do is, get these cores to work for the malware scan and let the veeam server run his intended use case.

Hope that makes it more clear