Introduction

This guide describes the integration of the Entrust Cryptographic Security Platform Key Management Vault with VMware encryptions solutions, vSAN and VM encryption. Entrust Cryptographic Security Platform Key Management Vault, configured with an open-standard KMIP Vault, can serve as a KMS in vCenter.

Documents to read first

Also refer to the following documents in the VMware online documentation:

  • Using Encryption in a vSAN Cluster.

  • Virtual Machine Encryption.

Product configuration

Vendor Product Version

VMware

vSphere

8.0

Entrust

Cryptographic Security Platform

1.0

Entrust

Key Management Vault

10.4.5

Requirements

Entrust recommends that you allow only unprivileged connections unless you are performing administrative tasks.