CipherTrust Manager enables organizations to centrally manage encryption keys for Thales CipherTrust Data Security Platform and third party products. It simplifies key lifecycle management tasks, including secure key generation, backup/restore, clustering, deactivation, and deletion.
The CipherTrust Manager server can be deployed in a number of cloud based environments as well as in a physical appliance.
How the CipherTrust Manager is distributed and deployed is based on the environment. The supported environments are listed below along with the supported distribution method:
Public Cloud Images (by https://www.vmware.com/topics/glossary/content/public-cloud.html)
Public cloud is an IT model where on-demand computing services and infrastructure are managed by a third-party provider and shared with multiple organizations using the public Internet. Public cloud service providers may offer cloud-based services such as infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), or software as a service (Saas) to users for either a monthly or pay-per-use fee, eliminating the need for users to host these services on site in their own data center.
Public cloud makes computing resources available to anyone for purchase. Multiple users typically share the use of a public cloud. In contrast, private cloud involves cloud-based services that are hosted within an organization’s own private servers.
List of Public Cloud Images
Amazon Web Services: SafeNet Cloud Provisioning System
Refer to: AWS Deployment
Google Cloud:
Refer to: Google Cloud Deployment
Microsoft Azure: Available as a BYOL image in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Refer to: Azure Deployment
Oracle Cloud
Refer to: Oracle Cloud Deployment
Alibaba Cloud
Refer to: Alibaba Cloud Deployment
Private Cloud Images by Citrix
Private cloud is a type of cloud computing that delivers similar advantages to public cloud, including scalability.
Private cloud is a computing model that offers a proprietary environment dedicated to a single business entity. As with other types of cloud computing environments, private cloud provides extended, virtualized computing resources via physical components stored on-premises or at a vendor’s datacenter.
One of the chief advantages of a private cloud deployment is the enhanced degree of control offered to the organization. Because the private cloud is only accessible to a single business, that organization can configure the environment and manage it in a manner that is uniquely tailored to the specific computing needs of the company.
List of Private Cloud Images
VMware vSphere: OVA image file
Refer to: Private Cloud Deployment
Microsoft Hyper-V: VHDX image file
Refer to: Private Cloud Deployment
Nutanix AHV: VMDK image file
Refer to: Private Cloud Deployment
OpenStack: qcow2 image file
Physical Appliances
Appliances were engineered to provide the computing power needed to meet certain applications’ specific requirements, giving them a performance advantage over servers.
CipherTrust models:
CipherTrust k470
CipherTrust k570
Refer to: Physical Deployment
Refer to: Migrating from KeySecure Classic
For network configuration on physical appliances, refer to Network Configuration Tutorial
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