Introduction

This guide describes the integration of the Entrust KeyControl KMIP Vault Key Management Solution (KMS) with VMware encryptions solutions, vSAN, and VM encryption. Entrust KeyControl KMIP Vault can serve as a KMS in vCenter using the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) open standard.

Documents to read first

This guide describes how to configure the Entrust KeyControl KMIP Vault as a KMS in vCenter.

To install and configure the Entrust KeyControl KMIP Vault as a KMIP server, see the following documents:

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

  • Using Encryption in a vSAN Cluster.

  • Virtual Machine Encryption.

Product configuration

Product Version

VMware vSphere

7.0, 8.0

KeyControl Vault

10.4.1

Requirements

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