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yes, it works fine under ESX 3.0.1 at least for the smaller license versions -- I'm not sure how well it would scale though for 50+ managed devices and you have to pay careful attention to security/high availability of the virtual machine. My unders...
Note: IPS does drop all packets on configured interfaces when it is compiling signatures unless you disable the fail closed setting.Even with a 3800 which is pretty hefty cpu wise compared to the other ISR's, it can take up to 20 minutes to finish a ...
First of all, unless you really are using alot of vlans on the ESX boxes, its typically better to just put additional network cards as that will also improve vmware performance. It is not that unusual to have 2-3 NICS assigned to each virtual switch...
IPS5 under IOS really is best configured from the command line at the moment. There is a nice tech doc describing how to do it (just look under release notes/new features to get the link).The next version of SDM is supposed to support configuration ...
