[OpenIndiana-discuss] self encrypting disks

[Marion Hakanson]

richard.elling at richardelling.com said:
> Soon, many, if not all, HDDs will be shipped as self encrypting. AFAIK, there
> is no OI project for managing the keys, however. I'm interested to  know what
> the demand for these tools might be.
>  -- richard 

Hi Richard,

We have over 100 such disks (Seagate drives in Dell MD1200 enclosures)
running on Solaris-10 and OpenIndiana servers (mostly the latter).  Being
able to turn on the drives' encryption would be useful to us, both for
meeting potential requirements from "above", and for saving the cost of
the "keep your hard drive" add-on to our Dell service contracts.

BTW, some encryption requirements I'm aware of include the need for some
kind of centralized reporting functionality.  I.e. without that in place,
the data isn't considered to be encrypted.

Regards,

Marion