Bit Locker on windows 2008 R2 Virtual machine

Hello there !
We have a a number of Windows 2008 R2 machines and we wish to provide an encryption mechanism for each Virtual machine.
It's a VMware environment and all the VM files go into NFS drives.
Do you think , Bitlocker will help ?
Is Bitlocker supported on Virtual machines ?
In my opinion , Bitlocker is to safeguard against any "physical" threat to a machine.
But I wanted a second opinion here.
Please help me.

VMs don't have a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) available to store the Full Volume Encryption Key (FVEK) used for BitLocker, but you can still use Hyper-V by storing the necessary information on a floppy drive. Use the command line:
cscript c:\Windows\System32\manage-bde.wsf -on C: -rp -sk A:
BitLocker is now enabled within the VM.
VMs don't have a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) available to store the Full Volume Encryption Key (FVEK) used for BitLocker, but you can still use Hyper-V by storing the necessary information on a floppy drive. Use the command line:
cscript c:\Windows\System32\manage-bde.wsf -on C: -rp -sk A:
BitLocker is now enabled within the VM.
Hyper-V Security How to: Use BitLocker to Protect Your VMs
http://blogs.technet.com/b/tonyso/archive/2008/07/01/hyper-v-security-how-to-use-bitlocker-to-protect-your-vms.aspx
for VMeare VMs you have to check with VMware and these links may help you
How to Encrypt VMware VM running Windows 2008 R2 with Microsoft Bitlocker
http://www.christowles.com/2010/10/how-to-encrypt-vmware-vm-running.html
http://www.networknet.nl/apps/wp/archives/395
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