Does implementing Cluster Peer Encryption influence performance
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- Cluster Peer Encryption
- SnapMirror
Answer
- This feature is enabled by default since ONTAP 9.6.
- Because of the processing overhead of encryption, it will consume a bit of CPU but should not have much impact if there is headroom.
- It will not impact the speed of SnapMirror transferring.
Additional Information
- You can check using
statistics show-periodic -node
before and after enabling encryption to see how much influence it has on the performance. - It is an optional setting not a MUST.