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August 1st, 2015 22:00

How to prove obfuscation & auto tiering function

Hi all,

Q1:
If I enable obfuscation, how could I prove the volume was encrypted ? All files or  whole volume ?

#scli --mdm_ip 192.168.1.200 --set_obfuscation_properties --use_obfuscation

Q2:

Auto tiering function was optional in 1.30 version, it need additional separate XtremCache license.

Is include the "auto tiering" feature in ScaleIO 1.32 ?

Thanks in advance.

August 3rd, 2015 06:00

Answer for Q1:
If you stop SDS service and try to "read" the data directly from the disks (SDS devices), you will see that the data is obfuscated. The devices must be very small as otherwise you will not know where to read from.

The goal of obfuscation is that the data will not be readable when someone try to directly access the disks.

Stop SDS:

Windows: Stop the 'ScaleIO Data Server' service

Linux: /opt/emc/scaleio/sds/bin/delete_service.sh (and create_service.sh to start the SDS).

Answer for Q2:

When installing XtremCache 2.1 with ScaleIO 1.32, you can use a flag to install XtremCache in ScaleIO mode:

Linux: SCALEIO_MODE=YES rpm -i

Windows: msiexec /i SCALEIO_MODE=YES

This installation will disable License checks

Note: XtremCache will be fully integrated into ScaleIO 2.0 release (targeted to be released by end of 2015)

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