how to recover a vsan cluster following a sudden outage with no vcenter access

Key management servers (KMS), VMware vCenter, vSphere & vSAN. Each of these play an important part of vSAN encryption. What are the KMS requirements, the host requirements, and so on? How is vSAN encryption set up and managed? How do normal tasks change (or do they)? Does encryption impact the performance of vSAN? Each of these items will be covered at length, so you can become a Captain of vSAN Encryption (wink, wink).

There are many answers to that question: some would say it’s a hyper-converged storage solution, while others would insist on calling it a software based distributed storage solution; it’s not hard to also find names such as software defined storage or hypervisor converged.