How to use Encryption Service

Owned by Tran Khanh Ngoc
Sept 19, 2024
2 min read

  1. Customer login to Portal vCD

  2. Verify Encryption Policy is available

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  3. Choose the VM you want to encrypt. Note: this VM must be powered off before encryption

 

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  1. Change Default Storage Policy

    1. VM -> General -> EDIT

  • Wait for this VM encryption process to complete (It will take time depending on the size of the VM's hard drive)

  1. Optional: Enable Security Devices – Trusted Platform Module (vTPM)

    1. Choose Security Devices -> Edit -> Enable -> SAVE

 

NOTED: VM must meet the following requirements to add Trusted Platform Module:

o   VM is powered off

o   OS is compatible with Trusted Platform Module

o   VM doesn’t have any snapshots

o   Hardware version 14 or later

o Boot firmware is EFI

 

  1. Powered on the encrypted VM:

  • VM configuration files are encrypted, including swap files, core dump files, and more.

  • All Hard disks are encrypted.

 

  • vTPM is present (Optional: if it was enabled in step 5)

 

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