{"id":21088,"date":"2018-06-22T05:14:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T05:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/?p=21088"},"modified":"2024-08-09T08:59:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T08:59:37","slug":"how-to-encrypt-a-virtual-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/how-to-encrypt-a-virtual-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Encrypt a Virtual Machine?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to Encrypt a Virtual Machine?<\/h2>\n

In this tutorial, we will learn the steps to Encrypt a Virtual Machine using VMWare Workstation. Encryption is a security feature that enhancing the security of the virtual machine. Encryption is key and requirements for TPM. For example, to use TPM( Trusted Platform Module) to a virtual machine should be encrypted.<\/p>\n

Encrypt a Virtual Machine<\/h3>\n

Let’s see the steps to enable Encryption on Virtual machine.<\/p>\n

Launch the Virtual machine to encrypt. Make sure you power off the VM.<\/p>\n

Click on the link Edit virtual machine settings\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

OR from the menu choose VM >> Settings… (Ctrl + D <\/strong>keyboard shortcut)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Edit<\/p>\n

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Select the Options tab >> Access Control<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Virtual<\/p>\n

Click on the Encrypt…<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n

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Set a password for the Virtual Machine. We need to confirm by repeating the same password. Make a note of the password and click on the Encrypt<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n

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\"Set<\/p>\n

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If you expect the VM has critical and confidential data or files, then choose a string password. Depending on the VM size the encryption process would take some time. Be patient for the process to get complete.<\/p>\n

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Once the VM encryption process is complete, the Access Control tab would display that the machine is encrypted.<\/p>\n

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\"Access<\/p>\n

On this screen, we can also find the options to Change Password or the Remove the Encryption.<\/p>\n

That’s it. Now the VM is protected with a password and the VM contents would be encrypted. Next time when we launch the VM, we need the password to access it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How to Encrypt a Virtual Machine? In this tutorial, we will learn the steps to Encrypt a Virtual Machine using VMWare Workstation. Encryption is a security feature that enhancing the security of the virtual machine. Encryption is key and requirements for TPM. For example, to use TPM( Trusted Platform Module) to a virtual machine should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21088"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23830,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21088\/revisions\/23830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}