About Trend Micro

Trend Micro Virtual Desktop Security provides comprehensive protection for virtual desktops while preserving performance and consolidation ratios. Built specifically to handle the rigors of virtual desktop environments, Trend Micro Virtual Desktop Security maximizes security for a broad spectrum of virtual desktop scenarios—from single application kiosk-type use in public environments to the complete replacement of physical desktops. With true agentless malware protection for zero-client deployment and optimized in-guest-agents for highest security and portability, the solution helps enterprises maximize both the security and ROI of their VDI investment.

VDI Challenges

Implementing VDI should not mean forgoing desktop security. Yet traditional antivirus solutions significantly impact the performance of virtual desktop environments, so much so that running a virtual desktop with anti-virus enabled, can half the number of virtual desktops that a server can host.

Traditional antivirus solutions run within each desktop, monitoring all desktop IO, and regularly requesting signature updates and scanning the local hard disk for viruses. This activity not only increases processor utilization of each virtual desktop, but also increases the IO load on the storage infrastructure; reducing the number of desktops per server, growing the network, storage and server infrastructure costs, and ultimately increasing the cost of desktop virtualization.

Trend Micro and Atlantis ILIO Joint Solution

Trend Micro Virtual Desktop Security and Atlantis ILIO eliminate the performance, density and cost challenges of running AntiVirus in a VDI environment by optimizing the CPU, Memory and Disk IO access of the windows operating system and AntiVirus agents. Trend Micro reduces the resource utilization from a CPU and Memory standpoint using a unique agentless anti-malware option that leverages the VMware vShield APIs. This integration enables the Trend Microto analyze file and network operations of any VM running on hypervisors—using a scanning VM attached to that hypervisor. Atlantis ILIO deduplicates up to 90% of all file read requests from Trend Micro’s Virtual Desktop Security and processes them locally on the same hypervisor without ever having to traverse the network to access storage. With Trend Micro and Atlantis ILIO, organization can increase the density per server by up to 100% and reduce the amount of storage required for VDI by up to 90% with better performance than a physical PC.

Integrating Atlantis ILIO into a VDI Deployment with Trend Micro Virtual Desktop Security

The Trend Micro virtual appliance and the Atlantis ILIO virtual appliance are deployed “On Each Server” hosting virtual desktops. The virtual desktops and Trend Micro are deployed using the Atlantis ILIO as an NFS or iSCSI datastore. When the Microsoft Windows operating system and Trend Micro scanning VM reads or writes to its virtual hard drive, Atlantis ILIO processes the IO locally and deduplicates file read and writes, includes those related to AntiVirus.

Trend Micro and Atlantis ILIO scale out easily to add more desktop capacity by adding an Atlantis ILIO virtual appliance and Trend Micro virtual machine to each virtual desktop host without the need to add any additional storage.

For more information on Atlantis ILIO Deployment Options, visit the Deployment Options Page