To get started here is what you will need to complete the steps in this post:

• A deployed Entrust KeyControl v5.4 cluster (Click this sentence to learn how to do this)
• Active Directory service account

Now, let’s get started…

Connect KeyControl to Active Directory

1. Log in to the deployed Entrust KeyControl cluster. Once logged in:

Around this time last year I wrote about how to deploy a 2-node HyTrust KeyControl cluster. That post covered KeyControl version 5.2.1. You can find that blog post over here.

This post is very similar. The difference between it and the last post is that I will cover Entrust KeyControl version 5.4.. Are you scratching your head about the name change? Head over to this post I wrote about changes that occurred in January of this year where I talk about HyTrust being acquired by Entrust. The full press release can be found here.

Introduction

In my How to Deploy a HyTrust KeyControl 2-node Cluster post I walked through the steps for deploying and configuring a 2-node HyTrust KeyControl cluster. Now that you have it deployed, let’s start using it. But before we can do that, we need to add it vCenter as a Key Provider. Let’s go!!