Configuring Software Encryption

You can configure software encryption for the following entities in a CommCell environment.

CommCell Entity	Configuration
Global Level	Configure default software encryption settings at global level that are applied to the new storage policies and storage policy copies.
Storage Policy	Configure encryption on a storage policy to protect the data. You can opt to use third party encryption. Also, you can configure different settings for the primary copy and the secondary copy.
Network Storage Pool	Configure encryption on a network storage pool to protect the data.
Replication Set	Configure encryption to encrypt data on the source computer, to encrypt replicated data across the network to the destination computer, and to decrypt data on the destination computer.

In addition, you can configure different software encryption settings for the following CommCell entities.

CommCell Entity	Configuration
Client	The client computer uses the encryption settings of the storage policy that the client is associated with. You can configure different settings for the client or opt not to encrypt the data
Subclient or Instance	Configure to use one of different encryption options where the encryption settings of the client are used to protect the data. You can also opt not to encrypt the data.