Set Up the Standard Key Provider

Before you can start with virtual machine encryption tasks, you must set up the standard key provider.

Setting up a standard key provider includes adding the key provider and establishing trust with the key server. When you add a key provider, you are prompted to make it the default. You can explicitly change the default key provider. vCenter Server provisions keys from the default key provider.

Note: What was previously called a Key Management Server cluster in vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 is now called a key provider.