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Reference document for DXi encryption
Hello,
I've been looking for reference documentation regarding DXi V1000 encryption, so far I haven't found much.
From what I've found so far, there are two possibilities, either:
- DXi is totally encrypted by default, and in that case I would like to find some reference doc that states that,
or
- there is some additional software/license/whatever to encrypt DXi, and in that case, I would like to find some reference doc that explains that as well.
Any help would be appreciated! :)
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RC
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Jerry Schmidt on
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HI RC,
In terms of disk encryption, this is not currently supported with the DXI v1000 and I am not sure that it ever would be seeing with the DXi v1000 we are utilizing a data store within the virtual environment to install the DXi v1000 on and encrypting third party hardware via the DXi would be tricky.
In terms of data encryption, this in not currently supported on any DXi, virtual or physical, the main reason being encrypted data tends to not de-duplicate very well as the DXi tends to see encrypted data as unique.
The one area where encryption is supported is in terms of replication. The DXI v1000 has the ability to utilize AES 128-bit or 256-bit encryption to encrypt the connection between two DXIs as they replicate. This would guard against man in the middle type attacks. However this only encrypts the connection it does not encrypt the data.
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Permalink Reply by Ricardo Cardoso on
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Hello,
I know that deduplication engines tend to see encrypted data as unique. However, you can (and Symantec does) have a base encryption on your deduplication folder, so that the data you send there is unencrypted, deduplicates well, but if someones gets their hands on you physical unit (Physical DXi, Physical ESX with virtual DXi, whatever), they cannot get to your data.
No DXi supports this?
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RC
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