Gathering Information - Brocade Communications Systems Brocade BladeSystem 4/24 User Manual

Gathering information

Before you use the encryption setup wizard for the first time, you should also have a detailed
configuration plan in place and available for reference. The encryption setup wizard assumes the
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You have a plan in place to organize encryption devices into encryption groups.
If you want redundancy and high availability in your implementation you have a plan to create
high availability (HA) clusters of two encryption switches or blades to provide failover support.
All switches in the planned encryption group are interconnected on an I/O synch LAN.
The management ports on all encryption switches and 384-port Backbone Chassis CPs that
have encryption blades installed have a LAN connection to the SAN management program, and
are available for discovery.
A supported key management appliance is connected on the same LAN as the encryption
switches, 384-port Backbone Chassis CPs, and the SAN Management program.
An external host is available on the LAN to facilitate certificate exchange.
Switch KAC certificates have been signed by a Certificate Authority (CA), and stored in a known
location.
Key management system (key vault) certificates have been obtained and stored in a known
location.
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