Consequences Of Removing An Encryption Switch - Brocade Communications Systems Brocade BladeSystem 4/24 User Manual

Consequences of removing an encryption switch

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TABLE 25
Switch configuration
The switch is the only switch in the encryption
group.
The switch has configured encryption targets on
encryption engines.
The switch has encryption engines in HA
Clusters.
Figure 259
FIGURE 259
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explains the impact of removing switches.
Switch removal impact
shows the warning message that displays if you click Remove to remove a switch.
Removal of switch warning
Consequences of removing an encryption switch
Impact of removal
The encryption group is also removed.
•
The switch is configured to encrypt traffic to one or more
encryption targets.
•
The target container configuration is removed.
•
The encrypted data remains on the encryption target but
is not usable until the encryption target is manually
configured on another encryption switch.
The HA Clusters are removed. High availability is no longer
provided to the other encryption engine in each HA Cluster.
CAUTION
The encryption target data is visible in
encrypted format to zoned hosts. It is
strongly recommended that you remove the
encryption targets from all zones before you
disable encryption. Otherwise, hosts may
corrupt the encrypted data by writing
directly to the encryption target without
encryption.
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