This is going to be a bit of a longer story so please bear with me.
At work, I am in need to setup a server at an ISP which I need to certify according to ISO 27001 so one of my problems is that when one of the HDs fails it will get replaced by the ISP and I was looking to use encryption to make sure that removed HD cannot be used/read/data-mined.
I looked at hyper-v as a hypervisor which has the benefit of having bitlocker built-in but after several days of testing I found that its linux support is spotty.
I then went on to test VMWare as it offers VM encryption, not full disk encryption though, but this would be good enough. After tinkering around I found out one needs a separate KMS server/manager to use this.
Last on my list was proxmox which supports luks and zfs but not native zfs encryption and is apparently a pita to setup.
So I thought about FreeNAS seeing that it offers ZFS + encryption at least version 9.10 which I currently use but I have never looked at virtualization.
So provided the hardware is compatible with FreeNAS could I setup a FreeNAS system with an encrypted ZFS pool and utilize all of its features + virtualize a few linux based VMs?
At work, I am in need to setup a server at an ISP which I need to certify according to ISO 27001 so one of my problems is that when one of the HDs fails it will get replaced by the ISP and I was looking to use encryption to make sure that removed HD cannot be used/read/data-mined.
I looked at hyper-v as a hypervisor which has the benefit of having bitlocker built-in but after several days of testing I found that its linux support is spotty.
I then went on to test VMWare as it offers VM encryption, not full disk encryption though, but this would be good enough. After tinkering around I found out one needs a separate KMS server/manager to use this.
Last on my list was proxmox which supports luks and zfs but not native zfs encryption and is apparently a pita to setup.
So I thought about FreeNAS seeing that it offers ZFS + encryption at least version 9.10 which I currently use but I have never looked at virtualization.
So provided the hardware is compatible with FreeNAS could I setup a FreeNAS system with an encrypted ZFS pool and utilize all of its features + virtualize a few linux based VMs?
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