How to Connect KeyControl 5.4 to Active Directory
This post will walk through the steps to connect Entrust KeyControl to Active Directory.

To get started here is what you will need to complete the steps in this post:
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This post will walk through the steps to connect Entrust KeyControl to Active Directory.
To get started here is what you will need to complete the steps in this post:
Read how easy it is to deploy a 2-node Entrust (formerly HyTrust) KeyControl Key Management Server (KMS) for encrypting sensitive data in virtual machines.
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.
In vCenter 7 VMware moved away from the term KMS (Key Management Server) to Key Provider. This post will explain how to add HyTrust KeyControl as a Key Provider in vCenter 7.
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!!