Introduction

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

Documents to read first

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

To install and configure the Entrust KeyControl server 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

10.0

Requirements

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