Hello
We have a requirment to encypt our MySQL databases. These are running on Windows 2008 servers.
What are some of the options to available?
We are currently running TrueCrypt but that forced us to encrypt the system partition so the key was passed to OS at startup. If we did not pass the key at startup then services would fail to load as drive / volume with DB would have not mounted. We tried to script our way around it but no success. We are also using Idera to do the backup which is now failing as it can no longer run the VSS as result of TrueCrypt installed.
Another option is use BitLocker, this I have tested and can boot using a floppy key saved to another volume or location in SAN. Not sure what issues Idera will have with this. The problem for us this not supported by VMware or Microsoft and also we may need to move DB to Linux VM.
I have seen links to Highcloud but cannot download thier software.
Any ideas on encypting a MySQL DB volume on either Linux or Windows in a VSphere envirnoment.
john