ONTAP 9 Manuals ( CA08871-402 )

Learn about configuring external key management with ONTAP Volume Encryption

You can use one or more external key management servers to secure the keys that the cluster uses to access encrypted data. An external key management server is a third-party system in your storage environment that serves keys to nodes using the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP). In addition to the Onboard Key Manager, ONTAP supports several external key management servers.

Beginning with ONTAP 9.11.1, you can configure multiple external key managers in a cluster. See Configure clustered key servers. Beginning with ONTAP 9.12.0, you can use AWS' KMS to protect your VE keys for data SVMs. Beginning with ONTAP 9.17.1, you can use OpenStack’s Barbican KMS to protect your VE keys for data SVMs.

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