How Can I Perform Cryptographic Operations

The vSphere Client supports many cryptographic operations. For other tasks, you must use the API.
Interfaces for performing cryptographic operations
Interface
Operations
Information
vSphere Client
Create encrypted virtual machines
Encrypt and decrypt virtual machines
The
vSphere Security
guide.
vSphere Web Services SDK
Create encrypted virtual machines
Encrypt and decrypt virtual machines
Perform a deep recrypt of virtual machines
(use a different KEK and DEK).
Perform a shallow recrypt of virtual machines
(use a different KEK).
This chapter.
crypto-util
Decrypt encrypted core dumps, check whether files are encrypted, and perform other management tasks directly on the ESXi host,
Command-line help and the
vSphere Security
guide.