Skip to content
Luca Dell'Oca Principal Cloud Architect @Veeam
Virtual To The Core Virtual To The Core

Virtualization blog, the italian way.

Virtual To The Core
Virtual To The Core

Virtualization blog, the italian way.

Tag: kmip

Tech

Security for your virtual machines: backup of vSphere encrypted VMs

Luca Dell'Oca, February 14, 2017February 15, 2017

In my previous post of this small series, titled Security for your virtual machines: what is KMIP?, I talked about the new generation of the main hypervisors, VMware vSphere 6.5 and Microsoft Hyper-V 2016, and how they both introduced new encryption capabilities for virtual machines. I described the underlying technology used by VMware, KMIP; it’s not time to implement it in my lab and see how it interacts with data protection, specifically backups.

Continue Reading
Tech

Security for your virtual machines: what is KMIP?

Luca Dell'Oca, January 31, 2017January 28, 2017

The latest generation of the main hypervisors has shown, among other things, a renewed and increased focus on security, with the most visible feature being VM encryption. It’s amazing to see how both VMware vSphere 6.5 and Microsoft Hyper-V 2016, both released in the same year, introduced this feature at the same time. But it’s less of a surprise if you think about all the security issues that IT admins and users are facing lately, with things like ransomware, cryptolocker and other threads.
In this first of a series of posts, we’ll look at the different solutions and some deep dive into the used technologies, and how operations like backups are impacted. In this first post, let’s talk about KMIP.

Continue Reading

Search

Sponsors

Latest Posts

  • My Automated Lab project: #1 Install and configure the needed tools
  • Calculate space savings of a XFS volume with reflink and Veeam fast clone
  • A new whitepaper: Veeam Backup & Replication V12 enhanced security and scalability with object storage Secure Mode
  • Enable EVC mode in an existing vSphere Cluster with VCSA and VSAN in it
  • Playing with the new Veeam SOSAPI for Object Storage
©2023 Virtual To The Core | WordPress Theme by SuperbThemes