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3 Self-Encrypting Drives in Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with VMware vSphere | Technical White Paper |
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 Audience and Scope .......................................................................................................................................... 5
1.2 Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) support on VMware ............................................................................................. 5
1.3 Hardware and software requirements ................................................................................................................ 5
1.3.1 Prerequisites ....................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.3.2 Hardware requirements ...................................................................................................................................... 6
1.3.3 Software requirements ....................................................................................................................................... 6
2 UEFI or Human Interface Infrastructure (HII) RAID configuration utility ...................................................................... 7
3 PERC Command Line Interface (CLI) on VMware ESXi ............................................................................................. 8
3.1 Monitoring the secure virtual disks within VMware ESXi using PERCCLI ......................................................... 8
4 iDRAC Storage Configuration .................................................................................................................................... 14
5 Dell OpenManage Server Administrator .................................................................................................................... 15
5.1 Configure Dell OMSA on VMware ESXi ........................................................................................................... 15
5.2 Configure Dell OMSA on Windows operating system ...................................................................................... 15
6 vSAN with Self Encrypting Drive (SED) ..................................................................................................................... 16
7 Summary .................................................................................................................................................................... 17
8 References ................................................................................................................................................................. 18