[PVE-User] Where is ZFS encryption key in Proxmox 7.1

[Eric Abreu]

Hello Thomas,

I have repeated the following steps:

1 - Went to PVE Node/ ZFS/ Create ZFS/
2 - On the dialogue box name = my_pool, Add Storage (check), Select Devices
(2 x 1TB disks), RAID Level = Mirror, Compression = off, ashift = 12
3 - Hit Create
4 - Open the command line on my pve node and typed:
zpool get feature at encryption my_pool

And I got this as a response:

NAME     PROPERTY            VALUE               SOURCE
my_pool  feature at encryption  enabled             local

Does that mean encryption is enabled?

Thanks again.

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 12:17 PM Eric Abreu <abreuer1521 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> Thanks for the quick response. I'm going to repeat the steps to create the
> ZFS pool from the web interface and paste them here. I'm pretty sure I did
> everything from the dashboard and the encryption was enabled by default.
> I'll keep you posted. Thanks again for your help.
>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 3:37 AM Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht at proxmox.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 30.11.21 04:36, Eric Abreu wrote:
>> > I have created a ZFS pool from Proxmox 7.1 web interface with 2 SSDs in
>> > RAID 1. I noticed that everything works fine after I created the pool,
>> and
>> > ZFS at REST encryption was also enabled. After rebooting the server it
>> did
>> > not ask for a passphrase so my guess is that Proxmox is getting the key
>> > from somewhere in the file system. Anyone could help me find out where?
>>
>> Well, how did you enable ZFS at rest encryption? As that is something
>> that won't
>> be done automatically, and the local-storage web-interface/api currently
>> does not
>> allow to configure that either.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Thomas
>>
>>