Dell EMC Unity Storage
Dell EMC Unity Storage helps the organization to solve the data storage needs. It provides the following benefits:
Simplifies the data landscape. It streamlines the data storage needs with extensive coverage for enterprise workloads.
Automates data services. It simplifies the storage management with policy-based automation and data mobility capabilities to quickly move data between environments or clouds.
Extracts insight from data. Dell EMC provides a complete portfolio of solutions to unlock the value of data capital, with tight integration with leading applications and analytics platforms.
Optimizes any workload at scale. It automate management to control costs and empower end-users with extensive self-service capabilities that lighten the load on IT. Secure your data assets. Significantly reduce application outages and latency issues while reducing storage requirements and network loads with advanced storage and deduplication.
CipherTrust Manager integrates with Dell EMC Unity Storage to act as an external KMS and secure the data when it is at rest. The integration reduces the threat of unauthorized access to the encrypted data.
Supported Product Versions
Note
The integration is performed and certified on LTS release versions of CipherTrust Manager only. Feature releases support the integration and are covered under technical support but will not be explicitly certified. To know more about CipherTrust Manager release versions, click here.
CipherTrust Manager
- CipherTrust Manager 2.4 and higher
Dell EMC Unity
- Dell EMC Unity 480F
Prerequisites
Ensure that the CipherTrust Manager is installed and configured. For more details, refer to the CipherTrust Manager documentation.
Dell EMC Unity Storage communicates with the CipherTrust Manager using the KMIP interface. Ensure that the KMIP interface is configured on CipherTrust Manager. Refer to CipherTrust Manager Administration Guide for details.
IP address of the CipherTrust Manager and port of the KMIP interface must be accessible from the Dell EMC Unity Storage.
CipherTrust Manager recognizes only registered KMIP clients. Ensure that each node of the Unity cluster is registered as a KMIP client on the CipherTrust Manager. Refer to KMIP Client Registration for more details.
Ensure that Dell EMC Unity Storage has proper license for Data at Rest Encryption. To check the license in Dell EMC Unity, go to Settings > Software and Licenses > License information.
Ensure that the required licenses are activated. For more details, refer to the CipherTrust Manager documentation.
Steps for Integration
To integrate CipherTrust Manager with Dell EMC Unity Storage:
