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TheBobkin
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Have a read through this - it covers a lot more details than the VMware docs page:
https://core.vmware.com/resource/vsan-encryption-services


"What happens if vCenter is offline/ failed?"

Actually vCenter is only used for initial configuration and KMS trust establishment - after this the hosts communicate directly with the KMS and thus vCenter being down has no consequences other than can't make changes to the KMS configuration.

 

"What happens if 1 KMS is offline Failed?"
This depends entirely on the KMS-side configuration - ideally this should be done properly and it be a redundant KMS cluster with all nodes being able to provide all keys, however I have seen situations where administrators thought this was the case but sadly it was not and keys were not available as one KMS was down and it was the only one with specific keys.

 

"What happens if both KMS are offline/failed?"
Nothing unless vSAN nodes are rebooted or any change that unmounts and remounts Disk-Groups, obviously don't do this if at all possible until KMS issue is resolved, if this is done then that/those Disk-Groups will be locked until the keys are available again.

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