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Cisco UCS drive security key storage

jbittner
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Hi,

we evaluates use of Drive security feature of our Cisco UCS C220 servers and we wonder if enabled with local key management, where is that key stored? Is it in TPM?

 

Also we want to know if it is enabled and someone pulls drive from bay is that drive encrypted and not accessible without encryption key?

 

Thank you.

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Kirk J
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Greetings.

If a drive is encrypted, and transported to a different system, the drive will not be readable.

Key Management: for local key management, the key resides on the server/controller. For KMIP, the key resides on the key management server as well as the controller.

There is some more info about SED and UCS/UCSM in general at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/ucs-manager/CLI-User-Guides/Storage-Mgmt/3-1/b_CLI_UCSM_Storage_Management_Guide_3_1/b_CLI_UCSM_Storage_Management_Guide_3_1_chapter_01100.pdf

Thanks,

Kirk...

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