EpiForce VM uses on-demand policy distribution to offer enterprises the ability to manage and deploy policy to thousands of virtual or physical servers and endpoints with no impact to the network, application or user. EpiForce VM offers a centralized management console that enables a consolidated view to manage all EpiForce VM-protected machines – whether they are virtual or physical, without regard to their physical location on the network. Persistent security allows administrators to utilize VMotion or Virtual Center to migrate EpiForce VM-protected virtual machines from one physical host to another with no disruption of security policy, minimizing unplanned downtime and maximizing operational flexibility.

EpiForce VM is based on the EpiForce platform v2.5 and offers enterprises running VMware ESX Server many unique benefits, including:

• Protect virtual machines and physical servers and endpoints with a single solution
• Manage all EpiForce VM-protected machines through a single management console, regardless of platform or physical location and without the need to reconfigure the network
• Migrate virtual machines using VMotion or Virtual Center without compromising security policy
• Protect virtual machines from vulnerabilities introduced through VM sprawl
• Cross-platform support secures complex, heterogeneous environments

Other EpiForce VM features include:

• Support for F5 load balancers
• Support for Microsoft Cluster Services, HP Service Guard and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
• Network layer transparency offers deployment in days rather than months
• On-demand policy distribution deploys policy to tens or hundred of thousands of machines without impacting network performance
• Distributed architecture eliminates bottlenecks and single points of failure
• Manage policy from virtual or physical administrator consoles – or both
• Robust audit, logging and reporting enable full administrator visibility
• Role-based delegation of administrative privileges accommodates almost any organizational process

The EpiForce product family is available now and initially supports VMware ESX Server 3.0 and 3.5.