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Intel SSD drive encryption.
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4/18/12 8:42 PM
Hello everyone, 
 
We have an SRE-V 900 that runs a linux VM, we want to give this unit to customers to demo our software but we're trying to prevent them from being able to remove drives and pull down the VM immage. They will retain ownership of this unit soley for a period of time. I am interested to see if the Intel SSD drive encryption would be something I can use in conjunction with a SRE. So this sparks several questions that I've been suck on, if anyone cna provide some insight that would be greatly apreciated!
 
 
-Does the ESX hypervisor reside on the drives or is it in some other location on the SRE?
-Can I even use an intel SSD with an SRE, is this simply plug and play?
-How would I enter the passphrase when using the intel SSD encryption feature?
 
 
Thanks all!
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Re: New Message from James Horsfall in Service Ready Engine Virtualization
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4/18/12 8:48 PM as a reply to James Horsfall.
ESXi software is installed on an embedded USB chip within SRE hardware.

Currently we do not have SSD / SED drives available for SRE hardware. The drives are plug and play provided they are compatible with SRE and purchased from Cisco. Drives bought from a retail store wouldn't get recognized by SRE.

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Anurag Gurtu
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RE: Re: New Message from James Horsfall in Service Ready Engine Virtualizat
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4/18/12 9:12 PM as a reply to Anurag Gurtu.
ESXi software is installed on an embedded USB chip within SRE hardware.

Currently we do not have SSD / SED drives available for SRE hardware. The drives are plug and play provided they are compatible with SRE and purchased from Cisco. Drives bought from a retail store wouldn't get recognized by SRE.

Thanks

Anurag Gurtu

 
Thanks Anurag,
 
that throws that out the window, so can the drives be read without the SRE?
would this damage anything if I tried?
 
Besides putting this in a RAID 0 is there any other way to protect the data?
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RE: New Message from James Horsfall in Service Ready Engine Virtualization
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4/18/12 9:26 PM as a reply to James Horsfall.
If you can get a connector and mount the drives on a running OS then yes they can be read the content provided the software you are using to mount the drives reads volumes over RAID 0. I don’t think it’s easy but possible.



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ESXi software is installed on an embedded USB chip within SRE hardware.

Currently we do not have SSD / SED drives available for SRE hardware. The drives are plug and play provided they are compatible with SRE and purchased from Cisco. Drives bought from a retail store wouldn't get recognized by SRE.

Thanks

Anurag Gurtu



Thanks Anurag,

that throws that out the window, so can the drives be read without the SRE?
would this damage anything if I tried?

Besides putting this in a RAID 0 is there any other way to protect the data?
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