Agenda of this post is to run through the implementation of a KMS solution – Hytrust KeyControl and use it to enable data at rest encryption for vSAN datastore and VM level encryption as well. To get more clarity on which level of encryption you would need, read VMware official comparison! Before jumping into the … Read more
vSAN has been around for a long time now and its very easy to work with as well. You don’t have to be a storage administrator to manage vSAN clusters in vCenter in my experience. Once in a while after maintenance activity or after hard reboot of the ESXi hosts, we see warning alerts in … Read more
Most of the organizations want to have a control on license cost where host based license is economical vs per OS instance cost but the challenge in such a case is, How to control the VM placement? Due to vSphere DRS load balancing, VM’s will be vmotioned from 1 host to other host for which … Read more
If you are searching for “Changing the vCSA FQDN & hostname” then i don’t have to explain the reason for it, but in case you just came across this as a normal read then let me just say, there would be quite a few reasons like mentioned in VMware documentation. For me it was a … Read more
Time and again all Cloud architects/administrators are asked a simple question: “Can we host a dedicated vCenter for an individual customer?” Simple answer is “YES” but it comes with lot of challenges like how to give access to the customer & prioritizing on providing the same experience to the customer. In my opinion, Central Point … Read more
Last post was about “How To Implement Hytrust KMS for vSAN & VM Encryption?” which covered implementation of Hytrust and configuration with vCenter. Scope of this post is to demonstrate on how to configure vSAN encryption and VM encryption! vSAN encryption: Now, we are all set to enable vSAN encryption and this activity can take … Read more