ESXi, TPMs, fTPMs, & Intel PTT: A love story

Here’s a quick little rabbit-hole of upgrading ESXi clients, and a crash course on TPMs and their equivalents! 💛

- TPM/fTPM/Intel PTT Rundown

• Trusted Platform Module - a secure crypto-processor that generates, stores, and limits the use of cryptographic keys required to access system files!!!!! (reference).

The traditional TPM is a physical security & encryption-focused chip on the motherboard, but can also be built into the firmware of the computer’s CPU, which are notably AMD Firmware TPM (fTPM) and Intel Platform Trust Technology (PTT).