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тАО04-09-2013 06:20 PM
тАО04-09-2013 06:20 PM
I am interested in encrypting the replication data in order to protect it in transit. Anyone have ideas for accomplishing this?
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тАО04-09-2013 11:09 PM
тАО04-09-2013 11:09 PM
Re: Any options for encrypting replication data?
Hi Chris,
VPN encryption seems to be a common solution for protecting replication traffic.
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тАО04-10-2013 04:46 AM
тАО04-10-2013 04:46 AM
Re: Any options for encrypting replication data?
We are planning to create a VPN tunnel between our primary and secondary Nimble units. I was hoping to hear the approach taken by other Nimble customers.
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тАО04-10-2013 11:03 AM
тАО04-10-2013 11:03 AM
Re: Any options for encrypting replication data?
Hi Chris,
We use OpenVPN for tunneling: It's fast, free and relatively easy to setup. Currently we are also using dark fiber to a remote location.
You could probably also use VLAN's if your data stays locally ?
Regards,
Frank Uittenbosch
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тАО04-15-2013 07:35 AM
тАО04-15-2013 07:35 AM
Re: Any options for encrypting replication data?
We are using an IPsec vpn tunnel between our Palo Alto Firewalls and replicating traffic across it.
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тАО04-23-2013 08:26 AM
тАО04-23-2013 08:26 AM
SolutionOur customers almost all use external [to the array] VPN-encryption, which I'd say is probably the best/easiest way to do this if required. Encrypting packets for replication is a fairly arduous process, and although some platforms offer this I'd rather my storage array handles I/O particularly when there are viable alternatives.
However, once the initial replication is complete (perhaps using a local replica for the bulk transfer of data), is there actually any need to encrypt replicated deltas? Thinking about it, we're replicating compressed, changed blocks only from a custom-designed/implemented filesystem. One for the Nimble engineering team perhaps...