Administrator's Guide Supporting HP Secure Key Manager (SKM) and HP Enterprise Secure Key Manager (ESKM) Environments (Supporting Fabric OS v7.2.0) Instruction Manual

58 Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide (SKM/ESKM)

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High availability clusters

Creating HA clusters

For the initial encryption node, perform the following procedure.

1. Select Configure > Encryption from the menu task bar to display the Encryption Center

dialog box. (Refer to Figure 1 on page 14.)

2. Select an encryption group from the Encryption Center Devices table, then select Group >

HA Cluster from the menu task bar.

NOTE

If groups are not visible in the Encryption Center Devices table, select View > Groups from the

menu task bar.

The Encryption Group Properties dialog box displays, with the HA Clusters tab selected. (Refer

to Figure 33.)

3. Select an available encryption engine from the Non HA Encryption Engines table and a

destination HA cluster from the High Availability Clusters table. Select New HA Cluster if you are

creating a new cluster.

NOTE

If you are creating a new HA cluster, a dialog box displays requesting a name for the new HA

cluster. HA cluster names can have up to 31 characters. Letters, digits, and underscores are

allowed.

4. Click the right arrow to add the encryption engine to the selected HA cluster.

FIGURE 33 Encryption Group Properties dialog box - HA Clusters tab

To add the second encryption node to the HA cluster, perform the following procedure.

1. Select the desired HA cluster from the right panel.

2. Select the desired encryption engine to be added from the left panel.