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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2021
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Amit Pundalik Anchi, Bangalore, IN;
Vinay G. Rao, Bangalore, IN;
Srinivas Kangyampeta, Bangalore, IN;
Madhu Tarikere, Bangalore, IN;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus comprises at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The at least one processing device is configured to receive in a storage system, from a host device, mapping information associating a key identifier of a datastore-level key with a corresponding datastore comprising multiple logical storage devices of the storage system, to store the mapping information in a datastore-level key data structure of the storage system, to utilize the key identifier to obtain in the storage system the datastore-level key from a key management server external to the storage system, and responsive to receipt of at least one IO operation from the host device relating to at least one of reading or writing encrypted data of at least one of the logical storage devices of the datastore, to utilize the obtained datastore-level key to access the encrypted data in unencrypted form in the storage system.