Using Select New Key

You can perform data preparation by selecting the New Key button. This operation converts clear data on a disk to encrypted data by generating a new disk key.

Detailed Steps

To perform data preparation on a clear disk using the New Key option, follow these steps:

1. Select the disk and click Manage Disk Encryption.

2. In the Manage Disk Encryption: Settings window, click Change disk encryption status.
The Current Status will be Clear. Select the required action Encrypt from the Action drop-down list.
For data preparation, ensure that the Prepare Data check box is checked.
Click New Key and click Next.

3. Click Confirm in the next screen.

The percentage of the disk preparation is displayed. Wait until the disk status changes to crypto.

When the data preparation is completed successfully, the disk status turns to Crypto.

Note There is no automatic refresh to display the status. The disk preparation status can be monitored only by refreshing the page manually.

Caution Aborting the data preparation results in losing the contents of the disk.

Note You can choose to abort the data preparation process by clicking the Abort button. The Abort button is available under Disk Level when the data preparation is happening.
We do not recommend aborting the data preparation as it will result in losing the contents. However, when you abort the data preparation operation, you need to recover the disk data from the backup. The recover state also should be consistent with the data in the backup.