EMC® VNX® Series Security Configuration Guide for VNX

Configuring network encryption and authentication using the SSL protocol

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is a session level protocol used to encrypt network transmissions on the Internet. It encrypts data and provides message and server authentication. It also supports client authentication if required by the server. SSL is independent of higher level protocols so it can encapsulate any of the application level protocols such as HTTP and LDAP:

• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a fast, stateless, and object-oriented protocol used on the web. It enables web clients and servers to negotiate and interact. Unfortunately it has minimal security features. HTTPS (Secure) is a variant of HTTP used by a server that is SSL-enabled.
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an industry-standard access protocol that runs directly over TCP/IP. It is the primary access protocol for Active Directory and other directory servers such as the Sun Java System Directory Server (iPlanet) and OpenLDAP.

VNX for File supports SSL for Data Mover HTTP and LDAP connections.