Let us look at the various architectural components of vShield Endpoint as shown in the following figure:
You can configure and control the partner's software hosted in the SVA using the management console provided by the VMware partner. VMware partners can provide a user interface that makes the management experience (including policy management) exactly like managing software hosted on a dedicated physical security appliance.
Your vSphere administrators will put in less effort on this as they do not need to manage agents on the virtual machines. All of the policy management and AV management is done through a partner-provider SVA. Your vSphere administrators also don't need to update the AV definition inside the guest.
Virtual infrastructure administrators can easily monitor deployments to determine, for example, whether an antivirus solution is operating properly.
The EPSEC and REST interfaces allow partner-provided services to integrate with vSphere and vCloud...
