Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise User Manual v10.3.X (53-1001357-01, November 2009)

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Gathering information

Before you use the encryption setup wizard for the first time, you should also have a detailed

configuration plan in place and available for reference. The encryption setup wizard assumes the

following:

• You have a plan in place to organize encryption devices into encryption groups.

• If you want redundancy and high availability in your implementation you have a plan to create

high availability (HA) clusters of two encryption switches or blades to provide failover support.

• All switches in the planned encryption group are interconnected on an I/O synch LAN.

• The management ports on all encryption switches and DCX CPs that have encryption blades

installed have a LAN connection to the SAN management program, and are available for

discovery.

• A supported key management appliance is connected on the same LAN as the encryption

switches, DCX CPs, and the SAN Management program.

• An external host is available on the LAN to facilitate certificate exchange.

• Switch KAC certificates have been signed by a Certificate Authority (CA), and stored in a known

location.

• Key management system (key vault) certificates have been obtained and stored in a known

location.