Administrator's Guide Supporting RSA Data Protection Manager (DPM) Environments (Supporting Fabric OS v7.2.0) Owner's manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About This Document
- Encryption Overview
- In this chapter
- Host and LUN considerations
- Terminology
- The Brocade Encryption Switch
- The FS8-18 blade
- FIPS mode
- Performance licensing
- Recommendation for connectivity
- Usage limitations
- Brocade encryption solution overview
- Data encryption key life cycle management
- Master key management
- Support for virtual fabrics
- Cisco Fabric Connectivity support
- Configuring Encryption Using the Management Application
- In this chapter
- Encryption Center features
- Encryption user privileges
- Smart card usage
- Using authentication cards with a card reader
- Registering authentication cards from a card reader
- Registering authentication cards from the database
- Deregistering an authentication card
- Setting a quorum for authentication cards
- Using system cards
- Enabling or disabling the system card requirement
- Registering systems card from a card reader
- Deregistering system cards
- Using smart cards
- Tracking smart cards
- Editing smart cards
- Network connections
- Blade processor links
- Encryption node initialization and certificate generation
- Steps for connecting to a DPM appliance
- Exporting the KAC certificate signing request (CSR)
- Submitting the CSR to a certificate authority
- KAC certificate registration expiry
- Importing the signed KAC certificate
- Uploading the CA certificate onto the DPM appliance (and first-time configurations)
- Uploading the KAC certificate onto the DPM appliance (manual identity enrollment)
- DPM key vault high availability deployment
- Loading the CA certificate onto the encryption group leader
- Encryption preparation
- Creating an encryption group
- Adding a switch to an encryption group
- Replacing an encryption engine in an encryption group
- High availability clusters
- Configuring encryption storage targets
- Configuring hosts for encryption targets
- Adding target disk LUNs for encryption
- Adding target tape LUNs for encryption
- Moving targets
- Tape LUN write early and read ahead
- Tape LUN statistics
- Encryption engine rebalancing
- Master keys
- Security settings
- Zeroizing an encryption engine
- Using the Encryption Targets dialog box
- Redirection zones
- Disk device decommissioning
- Rekeying all disk LUNs manually
- Thin provisioned LUNs
- Viewing time left for auto rekey
- Viewing and editing switch encryption properties
- Viewing and editing encryption group properties
- Encryption-related acronyms in log messages
- Configuring Encryption Using the CLI
- In this chapter
- Overview
- Command validation checks
- Command RBAC permissions and AD types
- Cryptocfg Help command output
- Management LAN configuration
- Configuring cluster links
- Setting encryption node initialization
- Steps for connecting to a DPM appliance
- Initializing the Fabric OS encryption engines
- Exporting the KAC certificate signing request (CSR)
- Submitting the CSR to a CA
- Importing the signed KAC certificate
- Uploading the CA certificate onto the DPM appliance (and first-time configurations)
- Uploading the KAC certificate onto the DPM apliance (manual identity enrollment)
- Creating a Brocade encryption group
- Client registration for manual enrollment
- DPM key vault high availability deployment
- Setting heartbeat signaling values
- Adding a member node to an encryption group
- Generating and backing up the master key
- High availability clusters
- Re-exporting a master key
- Enabling the encryption engine
- Zoning considerations
- CryptoTarget container configuration
- Crypto LUN configuration
- Impact of tape LUN configuration changes
- Decommissioning LUNs
- Decommissioning replicated LUNs
- Force-enabling a decommissioned disk LUN for encryption
- Force-enabling a disabled disk LUN for encryption
- SRDF LUNs
- Using SRDF, TimeFinder and RecoverPoint with encryption
- Configuring LUNs for SRDF/TF or RP deployments
- SRDF/TF/RP manual rekeying procedures
- Tape pool configuration
- Configuring a multi-path Crypto LUN
- First-time encryption
- Thin provisioned LUNs
- Data rekeying
- Deployment Scenarios
- In this chapter
- Single encryption switch, two paths from host to target
- Single fabric deployment - HA cluster
- Single fabric deployment - DEK cluster
- Dual fabric deployment - HA and DEK cluster
- Multiple paths, one DEK cluster, and two HA clusters
- Multiple paths, DEK cluster, no HA cluster
- Deployment in Fibre Channel routed fabrics
- Deployment as part of an edge fabric
- Deployment with FCIP extension switches
- Data mirroring deployment
- VMware ESX server deployments
- Best Practices and Special Topics
- In this chapter
- Firmware upgrade and downgrade considerations
- Configuration upload and download considerations
- Configuration upload at an encryption group leader node
- Configuration upload at an encryption group member node
- Information not included in an upload
- Steps before configuration download
- Configuration download at the encryption group leader
- Configuration download at an encryption group member
- Steps after configuration download
- HP-UX considerations
- AIX considerations
- Enabling a disabled LUN
- Decommissioning in an EG containing mixed modes
- Decommissioning a multi-path LUN
- Disk metadata
- Tape metadata
- Tape data compression
- Tape pools
- Tape block zero handling
- Tape key expiry
- Configuring CryptoTarget containers and LUNs
- Redirection zones
- Deployment with Admin Domains (AD)
- Do not use DHCP for IP interfaces
- Ensure uniform licensing in HA clusters
- Tape library media changer considerations
- Turn off host-based encryption
- Avoid double encryption
- PID failover
- Turn off compression on extension switches
- Rekeying best practices and policies
- KAC certificate registration expiry
- Changing IP addresses in encryption groups
- Disabling the encryption engine
- Recommendations for Initiator Fan-Ins
- Best practices for host clusters in an encryption environment
- HA Cluster deployment considerations and best practices
- Key vault best practices
- Tape device LUN mapping
- Maintenance and Troubleshooting
- In this chapter
- Encryption group and HA cluster maintenance
- Displaying encryption group configuration or status information
- Removing a member node from an encryption group
- Deleting an encryption group
- Removing an HA cluster member
- Displaying the HA cluster configuration
- Replacing an HA cluster member
- Deleting an HA cluster member
- Performing a manual failback of an encryption engine
- Encryption group merge and split use cases
- A member node failed and is replaced
- A member node reboots and comes back up
- A member node lost connection to the group leader
- A member node lost connection to all other nodes in the encryption group
- Several member nodes split off from an encryption group
- Adjusting heartbeat signaling values
- EG split possibilities requiring manual recovery
- Configuration impact of encryption group split or node isolation
- Encryption group database manual operations
- Key vault diagnostics
- Measuring encryption performance
- General encryption troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting examples using the CLI
- Management application encryption wizard troubleshooting
- LUN policy troubleshooting
- Loss of encryption group leader after power outage
- MPIO and internal LUN states
- FS8-18 blade removal and replacement
- Brocade Encryption Switch removal and replacement
- Deregistering a DPM key vault
- Reclaiming the WWN base of a failed Brocade Encryption Switch
- Removing stale rekey information for a LUN
- Downgrading firmware from Fabric OS 7.1.0
- Fabric OS and DPM Compatibility Matrix
- Splitting an encryption group into two encryption groups
- Moving an encryption blade from one EG to another in the same fabric
- Moving an encryption switch from one EG to another in the same fabric
- State and Status Information
- Index
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Best Practices and Special Topics
In this chapter
•Firmware upgrade and downgrade considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
•Configuration upload and download considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
•HP-UX considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
•AIX considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
•Enabling a disabled LUN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
•Decommissioning in an EG containing mixed modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
•Tape metadata. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
•Tape data compression. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
•Tape pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
•Tape block zero handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
•Tape key expiry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
•Configuring CryptoTarget containers and LUNs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
•Redirection zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
•Deployment with Admin Domains (AD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
•Do not use DHCP for IP interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
•Ensure uniform licensing in HA clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
•Tape library media changer considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
•Turn off host-based encryption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
•Avoid double encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
•PID failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
•Turn off compression on extension switches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
•Rekeying best practices and policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
•KAC certificate registration expiry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
•Changing IP addresses in encryption groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
•Disabling the encryption engine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
•Recommendations for Initiator Fan-Ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
•Best practices for host clusters in an encryption environment . . . . . . . . . 243
•HA Cluster deployment considerations and best practices . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
•Key vault best practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
•Tape device LUN mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243