topic Re: Volume Encryption and Snapmirror in ONTAP Discussions

Volume Encryption and Snapmirror

loudymanschwab — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:04:45 GMT

Does anyone know if when using snapmirror and the source volume is encrypted with NVE, do the blocks/files get sent encrypted across the network to the destination?

Wondering also, if encryption only occurs if DP/XDP with BRE is used, and once a relationship is configured or changes to LRE, then data-in-flight encryption stops.

Any insight or knowledge on this topic appreciated.

Re: Volume Encryption and Snapmirror

Sahana — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 05:05:08 GMT

Hi,

Please refer the 2 bugs referenced below:

https://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/bol?Type=Detail&Display=1042596

https://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/bol?Type=Detail&Display=75206

Re: Volume Encryption and Snapmirror

StorageNob — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 13:25:13 GMT

I'll answer the question in clear text instead having links that require an account to view. The answer is no, data is not encrypted in transit. NVE encrypts below the WAFL layer.