Principled Technologies Finds That Enabling SEKM on Dell PowerEdge Servers Has a Negligible Impact on NVMe Disk Performance Metrics
To determine how disk performance changed after enabling the Secure Enterprise Key Manager (SEKM) feature on Dell PowerEdge servers, Principled Technologies (PT), set up a cluster of three Dell PowerEdge R7525 servers, then captured and compared HCIBench performance metrics with and without SEKM.
Durham, NC, December 02, 2022 --(PR.com)-- Cybercrime is on the rise and in the news—with huge costs to organizations that lose control of customers’ data. However, while disk encryption and effective key management are cornerstones to any comprehensive data protection strategy, some IT admins may assume that server storage performance is an associated casualty.
To measure the performance impact of enabling Secure Enterprise Key Manager (SEKM) on PowerEdge servers, PT engineers set up a hyperconverged (HCI) cluster consisting of three Dell PowerEdge R7525 servers, first in a 2-NVMe disk group configuration and again in a 3-NVMe disk group configuration. The engineers found that the Dell PowerEdge R7525 cluster delivered almost the same disk performance results with SEKM enabled through Thales CipherTrust Manager, a KMS provider, as the same cluster without the added data security.
According to the report, “We found that enabling hardware-based data encryption with key management had a minimal performance impact on baseline IOPS, latency, and throughput results. Additionally, HCI cluster performance scaled linearly when we added storage.”
To learn more about how enabling key management in conjunction with encryption can help better protect data at rest, read the report at https://facts.pt/jGg1rsF or the infographic at https://facts.pt/Y3VMkGp.
About Principled Technologies, Inc.
Principled Technologies, Inc. is the leading provider of technology marketing and learning & development services.
Principled Technologies, Inc. is located in Durham, North Carolina, USA. For more information, please visit www.principledtechnologies.com.
To measure the performance impact of enabling Secure Enterprise Key Manager (SEKM) on PowerEdge servers, PT engineers set up a hyperconverged (HCI) cluster consisting of three Dell PowerEdge R7525 servers, first in a 2-NVMe disk group configuration and again in a 3-NVMe disk group configuration. The engineers found that the Dell PowerEdge R7525 cluster delivered almost the same disk performance results with SEKM enabled through Thales CipherTrust Manager, a KMS provider, as the same cluster without the added data security.
According to the report, “We found that enabling hardware-based data encryption with key management had a minimal performance impact on baseline IOPS, latency, and throughput results. Additionally, HCI cluster performance scaled linearly when we added storage.”
To learn more about how enabling key management in conjunction with encryption can help better protect data at rest, read the report at https://facts.pt/jGg1rsF or the infographic at https://facts.pt/Y3VMkGp.
About Principled Technologies, Inc.
Principled Technologies, Inc. is the leading provider of technology marketing and learning & development services.
Principled Technologies, Inc. is located in Durham, North Carolina, USA. For more information, please visit www.principledtechnologies.com.
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