Recently, my company started working on encrypting the databases on our database servers. Ever since, the servers that used to take less than 5 minutes for a full reboot now take upwards of an hour. It all seems to have something to do with the encryption. The database team worked with the vendor to install the encryption, taking the sysadmins out of the loop. Now, mount shows duplicate mounts on the data partitions. I assume this is part of the encryption security. When I reboot the server, it gets stuck on
/data: device is busy then finally moves on to
Stopping block device availability: Deactivating block devices: and just sits there for a while. These servers are running RHEL 6.5 and the encryption agent is Vormetric, if that makes a difference. We have asked our contact for more information on this but have yet to get an answer. Googling doesn't do much good.
Any help would be appreciated as these servers are clustered and I can only reboot 1 at a time, yet with them taking an hour or more each I doubt I will get them all done in a 3 hour window tomorrow.
edit: formatting
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