Do anti-virus products interfere with ScaleOut hosts?

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Our IT policy requires all servers to actively run an anti-virus solution to help protect us from risk. Since SOSS is a high performance product, will running anti-virus software negatively impact our performance?
 
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No.
SOSS causes minimal disk activity because it is a purely in-memory data store, so virus scanners have little impact on the service’s performance. Also, there are no known issues with having virus scanners check files in the product’s installation directory. However, many security suites are bundled with network intrusion features that install network drivers in order to monitor for suspicious activity. These drivers may introduce significant delays to the delivery of network traffic to and from the SOSS service. The SOSS service relies on the fast delivery of network traffic for the best possible performance, so consider disabling network intrusion features if they cause performance to suffer noticeably.
 
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