Virtual TapeServer 8.0 Configuration Guide

62 | Enabling and Configuring Data Encryption
Enabling Data Encryption licensing
Before you can use the Data Encryption feature, you must enable licensing.
Requires Administration group membership
To enter a license key
1. Click Configuration→System on the navigation pane.
2. Click Manage System Licenses. A page similar to the following is displayed:
3. Enter the Data Encryption license key as described in the help. To view the help, click the
Help button at the top of the page.
Configuring Data Encryption
This section provides the procedures needed to configure Data Encryption. It also provides an
overview of the steps that are required if multiple VTS servers are installed in your
environment and the data you must gather to complete the procedures.
Using Data Encryption in a multi-server environment
If there are multiple VTS servers in your environment, you must configure one key server
that will generate the keys used to encrypt and decrypt data. You must configure at least one
backup host where the key server database is backed up. Also, it is highly recommended that
you configure at least one other backup host that is not in the VTS environment; an off-site
backup host ensures that data is backed up in case of unrecoverable failures. Consider the
following example.