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Corralling Virtual Machines With Encryption Keys

  • US 20090282266A1
  • Filed: 05/08/2008
  • Published: 11/12/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. At a management service in a computerized environment comprising one or more virtual machines and one or more virtual hard disks corresponding to each of the one or more virtual machines, a method of securely managing the one or more virtual machines on one or more physical hosts using or more encryption keys, comprising the acts of:

  • creating one or more virtual machines on one or more physical hosts, wherein each of the one or more virtual machines comprises a unique ID, and is associated with one or more virtual hard disks;

    associating an encryption key with one or more of the one or more virtual machine unique IDs;

    encrypting one or more of the one or more virtual hard disks for each of the one or more virtual machines associated with the encryption key;

    providing the encryption key to one or more hypervisor components that interface between the virtual machines and the associated one or more virtual hard disks, wherein the one or more hypervisor components provide read/write access of the one or more encrypted drives to the corresponding virtual machine using the provided encryption key.

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