Self-encrypting drive support

IBM Storage Scale Erasure Code Edition supports the migration of an existing recovery group to enable a self-encrypting drive (SED).

Support migration of a recovery group by enabling SED online

The existing recovery groups can be enabled for the SED support through a process called migration. The migration can be done on live system when a workload is in-progress.

Notes:
  • A recovery group only with NVMe drives (PCIe attached) are supported.
  • All the drives in a recovery group must be SED capable to support this feature.
  • This feature with the drive hardware must be tested before the production.
  • The MegaRaid Controller is not supported. The use of SED on drives, which are attached to MegaRAID HBA, cause unrecoverable data lost when a drive is power-recycled.
  • Configuration of a remote key manager (RKM) server must be backed up, and restore it when the recovery is needed.