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vSphere 6.5 – Encrypted vMotion

vSphere 6.5 – Encrypted vMotion

Another  good news is that You can encrypt the vMotion of any VM, encrypted or not – encrypted VM’s will always use encrypted vMotion : Disabled – do not use encrypted vMotion Opportunistic – use encrypted vMotion if source and destination hosts support it. Required -Allow only encrypted vMotion. Note !!!  Mixed cluster and you have a requirement of encrypted vMotion, then setting to “Required” will not let you vMotion to a host that doesn’t support it. (only vSphee ESXi 6.5…

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vSphere 6.5 – Backup and Restore encrypted VMs

vSphere 6.5 – Backup and Restore encrypted VMs

New encryption gives many possibilities but also make some impact to other tasks in our environment. Let’s consider backup implications – backup and restore of encrypted disks is possible with NBD and HotAdd transport, but SAN mode does not support encrypted virtual machine backup. No API change is involved – ESXi hosts encrypt by attaching an IO Filter. To back up encrypted virtual machines using HotAdd, the backup proxy must have been encrypted as well. The backup process requires “Cryptographer.DirectAccess”…

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