A company has a mandate to make sure that SVMs in the cloud leverage NetApp Volume Encryption as a storage administrator. Which type of SVM should be used?

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Options

• Anode
• Bdata
• Csystem
• Dadmin

• A
  3% (1)
• B
  81% (29)
• C
  11% (4)
• D
  6% (2)

Explanation

NetApp Volume Encryption (NVE) is a feature used to encrypt data at the storage level, ensuring that sensitive information is protected even if the physical storage media is compromised. For this scenario, where the company mandates the use of NVE, a data Storage Virtual Machine (SVM) A data SVM is the entity that provides the actual data services in a NetApp ONTAP system, and it is where the volumes that require encryption reside. By leveraging NVE, the storage administrator can ensure that volumes hosted by the data SVM are encrypted, securing the data in transit and at rest. Other types of SVMs, like node, system, and admin, are not used for hosting user data, so they would not be relevant in applying NetApp Volume Encryption. A data SVM is designed for managing and securing the volumes that need encryption, making it the correct type for this use case.

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