Patent ID: 11893144
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 15:
16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium to store instructions that are executable to perform operations comprising:
transmitting an input/output request that includes a data payload to write to a data storage system;
identifying a virtual disk that is associated with a virtual machine;
identifying a start address and an end address of the virtual disk;
transmitting a key request for a key encryption key, wherein the key request includes the start address and the end address of the virtual disk;
generating the key encryption key in response to determining that the start address and the end address are valid;
generating a smart key encryption key based on the key encryption key;
encrypting a media encryption key with the smart key encryption key; and
encrypting the data payload with the encrypted media encryption key prior to storing the data payload in the virtual disk.