VMware Cloud Director Encryption Management is a solution that grants in-transit encryption for disk I/O and vMotion for a customer's Virtual Machine using vTPM and VM Encryption technology.
Please refer to the Encryption Management service usage guide below.
Step 1: Customer login to Portal vCD
Step 3: Choose the VM you want to encrypt. Note: this VM must be powered off before encryption
VM -> General -> EDIT Wait for this VM encryption process to complete (It will take time depending on the size of the VM's hard drive)
Optional: Enable Security Devices – Trusted Platform Module (vTPM)
Step 5: Powered on the encrypted VM:
VM configuration files, including swap files, core dump files, and more, are encrypted.
All Hard disks are encrypted.
Choose Security Devices -> Edit -> Enable -> SAVE
NOTED: VM must meet the following requirements to add Trusted Platform Module:
VM is powered off
OS is compatible with Trusted Platform Module
VM doesn’t have any snapshots
Hardware version 14 or late
Boot firmware is EFI
vTPM is present (Optional: if it was enabled in step 5)
