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What is Encrypted
For encrypted disks, the data is transmitted encrypted. For disks that are not encrypted, Storage vMotion
encryption is not supported.
For virtual machines that are encrypted, migration with vSphere vMotion always uses encrypted vSphere
vMotion. You cannot turn off encrypted vSphere vMotion for encrypted virtual machines.
Encrypted vSphere vMotion States
For virtual machines that are not encrypted, you can set encrypted vSphere vMotion to one of the
following states. The default is Opportunistic.
Disabled Do not use encrypted vSphere vMotion.
Opportunistic Use encrypted vSphere vMotion if source and destination hosts support it.
Only ESXi versions 6.5 and later use encrypted vSphere vMotion.
Required Allow only encrypted vSphere vMotion. If the source or destination host
does not support encrypted vSphere vMotion, migration with vSphere
vMotion is not allowed.
When you encrypt a virtual machine, the virtual machine keeps a record of the current encrypted vSphere
vMotion setting. If you later disable encryption for the virtual machine, the encrypted vMotion setting
remains at Required until you change the setting explicitly. You can change the settings using Edit
Settings.
Enable or Disable Encrypted vMotion
You can enable encrypted vMotion during virtual machine creation. You can later change the encrypted
vMotion state from the virtual machine settings. You can change the encrypted vMotion state only for
virtual machines that are not encrypted.
For more information about virtual machine encryption, see Encrypted vSphere vMotion.
Prerequisites
Encrypted vMotion is supported only in vSphere 6.5 and later.
Procedure
1 Right-click the virtual machine and select Edit Settings.
2 Select VM Options.
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