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How to recover from a lost passphrase while using onboard encryption and NVE within ONTAP

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • Onboard Key Manager (OKM)
  • NetApp Volume Encryption (NVE)
  • NetApp Storage Encryption (NSE)

Description

The cluster passphrase used to configure OKM is unknown and there are encrypted volumes or disks.

ONTAP provides the ability to be configured for onboard key management to encrypt data at rest. 

  • The configuration is secured with a cluster-wide passphrase that is entered when the onboard key manager is configured and can be changed as needed
  • If the cluster-wide passphrase is lost, the recovery procedure involves unencrypting any volume using NVE or NAE encryption in order to reconfigure onboard key manager.

 

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