Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Migration of full-disk encrypted virtualized storage between blade servers
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Application No.: US12317945Application Date: 2008-12-30
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Publication No.: US09047468B2Publication Date: 2015-06-02
- Inventor: Palsamy Sakthikumar , Vincent J. Zimmer
- Applicant: Palsamy Sakthikumar , Vincent J. Zimmer
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; G06F21/57 ; G06F21/80 ; H04L9/08 ; G06F11/20

Abstract:
A method, system and computer-readable storage medium with instructions to migrate full-disk encrypted virtual storage between blade servers. A key is obtained to perform an operation on a first blade server. The key is obtained from a virtual security hardware instance and provided to the first blade server via a secure out-of-band communication channel. The key is migrated from the first blade server to a second blade server. The key is used to perform hardware encryption of data stored on the first blade server. The data are migrated to the second blade server without decrypting the data at the first blade server, and the second blade server uses the key to access the data. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090169020A1 Migration of full-disk encrypted virtualized storage between blade servers Public/Granted day:2009-07-02
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