topic Re: VMware Bitfusion Data-In-Transit Encryption in VMware vSphere™ Discussions

VMware Bitfusion Data-In-Transit Encryption

microlytix — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 15:57:37 GMT

I've checked the latest Bitfusion documentation but I couldn't find any information about traffic encryption between client and Bitfusion server.

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere-Bitfusion/index.html

Is the in-transit communication encrypted and which algorithm is used?

TIA

Michael

Re: VMware Bitfusion Data-In-Transit Encryption

DCasota — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 22:16:47 GMT

With respect to the 2.0 docs Bitfusion encrypts control traffic, but does not encrypt data traffic.

Actually, for vm traffic encryption there are some restrictions with PVRDMA for GPUhost-to-client-traffic, vSAN for data-in-transit encryption and in Bitfusion client' package Netlink Protocol Library Suite (libnl).

A Bitfusion-aware Horizon accessible Ubuntu desktop might be the way to go.

Re: VMware Bitfusion Data-In-Transit Encryption

DCasota — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 16:31:04 GMT

fyi A docker-biased alternative + your own tunnel encryption is thinkable as well.

https://github.com/vmware/bitfusion-with-kubernetes-integration