Learn About the Security Key Identifiers

Whenever you create or change a , you also create a security key identifier. Unlike the security key, the security key identifier is designed to be human-readable. The security key identified is stored on a disk drive or on transportable media. The security key identifier identifies which key a controller is using when more than one security key is present in a storage subsystem. Typically, all of the controllers and the disk drives in a storage subsystem share the same security key when the Full Disk Encryption (FDE) premium feature is used.

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