A key created by vCenter for a vSphere Native Key Provider and distributed to the hosts in a cluster. Each host uses it to derive encryption keys locally, so no external key server has to supply KEKs.
Also called Key Derivation Key.
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- Index field attributes
Settings applied to each field in an Azure AI Search index:
searchablefor full text,retrievableto return it,filterablefor exact-match$filter,sortable,facetablefor counts, andkeyfor the unique document ID. - vCenter
Management software for VMs, clusters and ESX hosts. Each domain in VCF gets a dedicated one.
- NKP
vSphere Native Key Provider is part of vCenter and issues the keys for VM Encryption and vTPM, so no outside key server (KMS) is required. Moving encrypted VMs by HCX bulk migration needs the target to offer a corresponding KMS or NKP.
- Encryption
Scrambling data so it cannot be read without the correct secret key, which is then used to turn it back again. Hashing, by contrast, cannot be reversed.
- KEYS
Lists the column or columns that identify each target row uniquely in an AUTO CDC statement.
- External
API Management virtual network mode in which the gateway stays public but can call private back ends inside the VNet.