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4 Self-Encrypting Drives in Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with VMware vSphere | Technical White Paper |
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Executive summary
Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) comply with the Opal Storage Specification, created by TCG Storage Security
Subsystem. It is a set of security specifications for features of data storage devices such as disk drives that
enhance their security. This document is intended to help the user build a configuration with encrypted virtual
disks to get data-at-rest protection and use the same from a VMware vSphere point of view. For information
on OPAL and TCG, see https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/.