公开(公告)号：US20220006792A1

公开(公告)日：2022-01-06

申请号：US16918760

申请日：2020-07-01

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Michal A. JANKOWSKI ,  Benjamin J. CORRIE ,  George HICKEN ,  Christian LITA

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/08 ,  G06F9/455

Abstract: This disclosure describes a process for securely instantiating a virtual machine on a server cluster. The virtual machine just after instantiation has access to persistent storage that includes an encrypted region and lacks access to an encryption key configured to provide access to data stored within the encrypted region. The virtual machine receives a communication from a management server associated with the server cluster that includes the encryption key configured to provide access to the data stored within the encrypted region. After the virtual machine receives the encryption key, the server cluster runs services that depend upon the data stored within the encrypted region to operate after receiving the communication from the management server.