Transition to external key management from onboard key management in ONTAP
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If you want to switch to external key management from onboard key management, you must delete the onboard key management configuration before you can enable external key management.
Before you begin
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For hardware-based encryption, you must reset the data keys of all FIPS drives or SEDs to the default value.
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For software-based encryption, you must unencrypt all volumes.
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You must be a cluster administrator to perform this task.
Step
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Delete the onboard key management configuration for a cluster:
For this ONTAP version…
Use this command…
ONTAP 9.6 and later
security key-manager onboard disable -vserver SVMONTAP 9.5 and earlier
security key-manager delete-key-database
Learn more about the commands described in this procedure in the ONTAP command reference.