HP 8/8 Fabric OS Encryption Administrator's Guide v6.4.0 (53-1001864-01, June - Page 101

Viewing and editing group properties 2 Consequences of removing an encryption switch Table 2 explains the impact of removing switches. TABLE 2 Switch removal impact Switch configuration Impact of removal The switch is the only switch in the encryption group. The switch has configured encryption targets on encryption engines. The encryption group is also removed. • The switch is configured to encrypt traffic to one or more encryption targets. • The target container configuration is removed. • The encrypted data remains on the encryption target but is not usable until the encryption target is manually configured on another encryption switch. The switch has encryption engines in HA Clusters. CAUTION The encryption target data is visible in encrypted format to zoned hosts. It is strongly recommended that you remove the encryption targets from all zones before you disable encryption. Otherwise, hosts may corrupt the encrypted data by writing directly to the encryption target without encryption. The HA Clusters are removed. High availability is no longer provided to the other encryption engine in each HA Cluster. Figure 48 shows the warning message that displays if you click Remove to remove a switch. FIGURE 48 Removal of switch warning Fabric OS Encryption Administrator's Guide 83 53-1001864-01