Which KVM encryption strategy has better performance - encryted vs unencrypted?

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Has anyone made any performance analysis of API comparing encryted KVMs vs unencrypted KVMs?

Thanks in advance!

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Perf will not be a good basis on which to select encrypted vs non-encrypted.

My suggestion: Use the one you want based on whether you want encryption or not.

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Although encrypted KVMs need to be decrypted which takes processing time once they are pulled in by the proxy operations policy it should not be a big concern since they are cached by EDGE and don't need to be decrypted again until EDGE refreshes the cached values. By default if not specified KVMs are cached for 300 seconds.

Perf will not be a good basis on which to select encrypted vs non-encrypted.

My suggestion: Use the one you want based on whether you want encryption or not.