Let’s take a deeper look into the anatomy of VMware snapshots. Snapshots provide very specific use cases that can be leveraged in certain situations. One of the tantalizingly cool features of VMware virtual machines since they came on the scene has been the ability to take snapshots and revert back to those snapshots if need be. VMware vSphere virtual machines provide powerful capabilities that allow today’s workloads to have a very agile, versatile, and efficient environment for software.
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KMIP Server Docker Container for evaluating VM Encryption in vSphere 6.By Brandon Lee VMware Snapshots in vSphere How To I hope this has been informative and thank you for reading! That's it! Now the VM configuration file and the VMDK's associated with the VM are all encrypted. If the VM is already created, then power Off the VM and then apply the Encryption policy. Note: The VM Policy can be applied when the VM is created. Right click on the VM > VM Policies > Edit VM Storage Policies. Select VM Encryption Policy from the drop-down and click on Apply to all. If you followed along correctly and everything was set up fine, you should see the below screen which shows Connection and certificate status as Green.įrom here on, we should be able to apply the VM Encryption Policy that is created by default once the vCenter Server is installed. Select the vCenter Server > Configure > More > Key Management Server > Add KMSĪdd the details of the container that we created in the previous step and click OK. Now that we have everything is taken care of, let us log into the Web Client of the vCenter Server. Run the below command to make sure that the container is running in the background. To exit out of the container, you need to press the Ctrl P + Q. The above command starts the container using the image we pulled in the previous step and it exposes the maps the port 5696 on the host to the port 5696 on the container.Īs you can see above that the container has started and there is a warning that states that this should be run in production since the keys used to encrypt VMs are stored in memory and will be lost upon reboot. The second step to start the container using the below command. You can verify if the docker image has been downloaded to the docker host by running the command: The first step will be to pull the Docker container image from the public repository using the below command. For folks, who are not familiar with Docker there are plenty of online resources available that you can refer to before trying this in your lab. I have written various articles on vSphere 6.5 which you can find here, but I had never written a post on vSphere 6.5 Encryption and I did receive a few requests asking if I could write a post on how to encrypt the VMs in a test environment.įirstly to set up Virtual Machine encryption, we need a Key Management Server and the encryption of VMs is going to performed by the Key Management Servers.Īt the time of writing this article, VMware supports four Key Management Servers, which are:įor our testing purposes, we will be using a Docker container image created by William Lam and spin it up as a container.īelow are the commands that you will be running on the Dicker client.
There were a lot of features that were introduced with the vSphere 6.5 and vSphere 6.5 Encryption of VMs was one among them.
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