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System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook

You're reading from   System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook Design, configure, and manage an efficient virtual infrastructure with VMM in System Center 2016

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785881480
Length 562 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO
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Roman Levchenko Roman Levchenko
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. VMM 2016 Architecture 2. Upgrading from Previous Versions FREE CHAPTER 3. Installing VMM 2016 4. Installing a Highly Available VMM Server 5. Configuring Fabric Resources in VMM 6. Configuring Guarded Fabric in VMM 7. Deploying Virtual Machines and Services 8. Managing VMware ESXi hosts 9. Managing Clouds, Fabric Updates, Resources, Clusters, and New Features of VMM 2016 10. Integration with System Center Operations Manager 2016 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Configuring Distributed Key Management

Distributed Key Management (DKM) is used to store VMM encryption keys in an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) container.

When installing VMM, for security reasons (recommended, as it encrypts the information on AD) and when deploying HA VMM (required), choose to use DKM on the Configure service account and distributed key management page.

Why do we need DKM? By default, using the Windows Data Protection API (DPAPI), VMM encrypts some data in the VMM database (for example, the Run As account credentials and passwords), and this data is tied to the VMM server and the service account used by VMM. However, with DKM, different machines can securely access the shared data.

Once an HA VMM node fails over to another node, it will start accessing the VMM database and use the encryption keys conveniently stored under a container in AD to decrypt...

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