Brocade Fabric OS Encryption Administrator's Guide v6.3.0 (53-1001341-02, July 2009)

xiv Encryption Administrator’s Guide
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• Appendix D, “Supported Key Management Systems,” describes supported key management
systems, and provides procedures for certificate exchanges to enable mutual authentication of
encryption switches or blades and key management appliances.
Supported hardware and software
. The following hardware platforms support data encryption as described in this manual.
• Brocade DCX and DCX-4S with an FS8-18 encryption blade.
• Brocade Encryption Switch.
What’s new in this document
Information about authentication cards, system cards, support of VmWare deployment scenarios,
and the Thales Encryption Manager for Storage (TEMS) is included in this document. Note that
TEMS is referred to as nCipher Key Authority (NCKA) in some sections of this document. Also, this
document includes new information about support for multiple paths between hosts and targets,
and key management appliance clusters.
Document conventions
This section describes text formatting conventions and important notice formats used in this
document.
Text formatting
The narrative-text formatting conventions that are used are as follows:
bold text Identifies command names
Identifies the names of user-manipulated GUI elements
Identifies keywords and operands
Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI
italic text Provides emphasis
Identifies variables
Identifies paths and Internet addresses
Identifies document titles
code text Identifies CLI output
Identifies command syntax examples
For readability, command names in the narrative portions of this guide are presented in mixed
lettercase: for example, switchShow. In actual examples, command lettercase is often all
lowercase. Otherwise, this manual specifically notes those cases in which a command is case
sensitive.