Enterprise Vault (EV) supports many different types of storage platforms, including several Cloud based storage vendors. Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) supports data being written in encrypted and non-encrypted formats. EV writes data to ECS storage via the S3 Streamer API, using the vendor’s own Streamer driver.

The Encryption of data written to ECS Buckets is controlled by the platform’s ECS storage engine and has no impact on requests to retrieve the content issued by EV.

EV does not require special configuration to support ECS encryption. However, when using encryption, customers may experience a slight drop in performance due to the additional processing overhead.

Dell EMC Product Management statement: 

“Encryption is done in the ECS storage engine which is a layer below the S3 (or CAS) API heads and is completely independent from it.  The use of encrypted buckets will not affect the use of EV with either the S3 or CAS APIs, except for a lowering in performance.”

For further queries about encryption on ECS Buckets, please contact Dell EMC Support. 

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