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Our Network people insist on having antivirus (eTrust) software on ALL servers, including all of our SQL Server 2005 machines. How can I best demonstrate that this is hurting performance?
I wouldn’t be surprised if you lost your argument to not have eTrust installed on the machine.
I would suggest rather then arguing against it being installed, suggest that they put in place the correct exclusion rules so databases and processes which are extremelly unlikely to get viruses aren’t scanned.
This should make the performance impact of eTrust neglible. (If it’s a good product, i’ve never used it.)
Look at this document, page 98: eTrust antiVirus
That should give you an idea how to configure it properly.