How long does deployment take ?
Once you have selected a target machine(s), and have told the console to deploy encryption, a small piece of software is remotely installed onto the target machine and encryption begins. Encryptions is seamless, happens behind the scenes and a user will not even notice it running. Typically it can take between 1 and 3 hours for the machine to be fully encrypted (depending on the size of disk / data) but the machine can be shut down or restarted at any time. Encryption will continue where it left off until complete.