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Hosting a KMS on the encrypted VxRail cluster, with Key Persistence

In my previous post (VxRail cluster encryption with the vSphere Native Key Provider) I spoke about how to encrypt your VxRail cluster with the vSphere Native Key Provider that was introduced in vSphere 7.0 U2. It is a great feature and the post shows how easy it is to set it up and use it toโ€ฆ

VxRail cluster encryption with the vSphere Native Key Provider

VMware has recently introduced the vSphere Native Key Provider (NKP). This is a way to enable data-at-rest protections straight from vSphere itself. Before we talk about the NKP, let’s first go back one step… Using a KMS So far, to encrypt a VxRail (vSAN) cluster, the only option was to setup a Key Management Serverโ€ฆ


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