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System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition
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System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

by Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
428 pages
9h 9m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

Configuring Distributed Key Management

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

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 the DKM? By default, VMM encrypts some data in the VMM database using the Windows Data Protection API (DPAPI)—for example, the Run As account's 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, ...

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