Intel SSD drive encryption. http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_thread?p_l_id=&threadId=5484142 2013-05-18T14:57:36Z 2013-05-18T14:57:36Z Anurag Gurtu http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=5486322 2012-04-18T21:26:29Z 2012-04-18T21:26:29Z

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. Thanks Anurag Gurtu, CISSP +1 408 424 1680 (O) +1 323 620 3224 (C) From: Cisco Developer Community Forums [mailto:cdicuser@developer.cisco.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 1:13 PM To: cdicuser@developer.cisco.com Subject: New Message from James Horsfall in Service Ready Engine Virtualization - SRE-V Technical Questions: RE: Re: New Message from James Horsfall in Service Ready Engine Virtualizat James Horsfall has created a new message in the forum "SRE-V Technical Questions": -------------------------------------------------------------- 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? -- To respond to this post, please click the following link: <http://developer.cisco.com/web/srev/forums/-/message_boards/view_message/5484256> or simply reply to this email.

Anurag Gurtu 2012-04-18T21:26:29Z James Horsfall http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=5484256 2012-04-18T21:12:50Z 2012-04-18T21:12:50Z

[quote]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[/quote]   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?

James Horsfall 2012-04-18T21:12:50Z Anurag Gurtu http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=5484153 2012-04-18T20:48:29Z 2012-04-18T20:48:29Z

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

Anurag Gurtu 2012-04-18T20:48:29Z James Horsfall http://developer.cisco.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=5484141 2012-04-18T20:42:02Z 2012-04-18T20:42:02Z

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!

James Horsfall 2012-04-18T20:42:02Z