Overview of the encryption features for VSP F series and VSP G series

The encryption features of the VSP F series and VSP G series provide hardware-based data-at-rest encryption for your sensitive data.

Parent Topic

• Encryption

  The VSP Gx00 models and VSP Fx00 models provide a performance-friendly AES-256-XTS encryption capability on the back-end I/O director. This capability protects data at rest on internal storage media (including disk drives and flash drives) attached to those directors. While many levels of encryption are available to the enterprise, protecting data at rest by using the array-level encryption of the storage system provides the following advantages: causes minimal to no performance impact within your operations, remains transparent to existing host servers and switches, shreds storage media by deleting the encryption key, simplifies key management to reduce the risk of the loss of encryption keys and data, and supports logging of encryption and key management events. In addition, many regulations encourage or require encryption of personally identifiable information (PII) and other sensitive data. Array-level encryption handles this type of data as well.

Child Topics

• About the data-at-rest encryption features
• Encryption component description
• Support specifications for Encryption License Key and FMD Encryption License Key
• When encryption keys are used
• Audit logging of encryption events
• Primary and secondary backups of encryption keys
• Automatic encryption key backup (key management server only)
• Regular encryption key backups
• Workflow for implementing data encryption