The objective of this article is to provide understanding on the Thales Cipher Trust compatibility with vSphere.
vSphere 8.x
The CipherTrust Manager is used to provide a key to the virtual machine and vSAN to enable the encryption.
CipherTrust Manager 1.8 and higher are compatible with below vSphere versions:
vSphere 6.5 (u1, u2)
vSphere 6.7 (u1, u2, u3)
vSphere 7.0 (u1)
vSphere 8.0 (u1, u2, u3)
More information can be found here : Broadcom | VMware | Hardware Compatibility Guide