monitoring virtual to virtual can be done easily… anything ‘sniffed’ at the os level would be easily seen, you can also monitor the switching of the servers within the virtual switch. network segmentation is easily achieved by trunking to the core and tagging each vswitch with the vlan… then it’s network layered traffic from virtual vlans on the host… essentially allowing the host to do your switching (trunked - duh )… ids and all existing captures would work as designed.
antivirus is effective through any instance as any physical endpoint… a lot of places run their antivirus on VM… just setup an av server as you normally would and run the clients to it… it’ll work just as it would physically.
)… ids and all existing captures would work as designed.