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Enabling Encryption on an Existing Volume with the Volume Encryption Conversion Start Command

  1. Create a new aggregate aggr2 without encryption. 

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Cluster1:> storage aggregate create aggr2 –diskcount 5 -encrypt-with-aggr-key false

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Create aggregate without encryption

  1. Create a plain text volume vol2 by running the command below.

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Cluster1::> volume create –volume vol2 –aggregate aggr2 –encrypt false

  1. View the volume vol2 by running the command below.

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Cluster::> volume show -volume vol2 -vserver svm1 

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Volume show output.

Volume show output

  1. Convert the existing volume vol2 (plain text volume) to an encrypted volume by running the command below.

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cluster1::> volume encryption conversion start -vserver SVM_name -volume volume_name 

Example: 

Cluster1::> volume encryption conversion start -vserver svm1 -volume vol2

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Volume encryption conversion start running.

Volume encryption conversion start running

  1. When the conversion operation is complete, verify that the volume is enabled for encryption. 

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Cluster1::> volume show -is-encrypted true

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Verifying encrypted volumes