File Share Encryption

We are a looking for a way to host our Symantec Encryption Management server in Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.  This is largely for disaster recovery purposes, but would be excellent for production use as well.

Since Azure does not provide console access to their VM's there is no way to boot from an iso. 

Importing a copy of a working SEMS vhd into Azure does not work either since it does not have the azure agent installed. 

Has anyone had any luck doing this?  I was kind of hoping that Symantec would provide a VHD of their SEMS for Azure, but no luck there yet.

Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks

You would want to ensure that your cloud hosting provider meets all of the system requirements from the administrator's guide first... Anything outside of those requirements may not be officially supported. Installing additional software on the Symantec Encryption Management Server is not recommended since it is a hardened security appliance. Any software customizations will not be officially supported. We do not currently provide any VHDs. 

That being said, you can setup SSH access to your local SEMS server with the following instructions : 

Access Symantec Encryption Management Server via SSH Using PuTTY - http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH149673 

After you have SSH access, you can use WINSCP to upload files over SCP and Putty / SSH to make changes to the server. 

Please let me know if this resolves the issue, or if you require additional assistance or clarification. 

Best Regards,

Phil