How to configure virtual disk encryption in vCenter

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi
• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

How to encrypt a virtual machine in vCenter

Environment

vCenter 7.x
vCenter 8.x

Resolution

To encrypt an existing virtual machine, you change its storage policy. You can change the storage policy for the virtual machine and all virtual disks. To encrypt just the virtual machine, you can specify an encryption policy for VM Home and select a different storage policy, such as Datastore Default, for each virtual disk. See Create an Encrypted Virtual Machine.