Encryption

With encryption, you can secure data at rest and during transmission. Encryption is a technology which converts data into a code by using a key. Data when encrypted is not readable. It is readable only when decrypted by authorized users using the same key that was used for encryption.

Encryption is performed by using the FIPS-compliant Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256-bit method. By default, encryption is not enabled. You can enable encryption at disk group level while configuring cr.yaml.

When Disaster Recovery (DR) is configured, encrypted data is transferred across sites. For DR configuration, encryption is supported at volume level only.

With encryption, you can -