Configuring OT for External KMS - weird requirements

Hi,

Reading the external key management configuration, in the encryption power guide:

"You can use one or more KMIP servers to secure the keys the cluster uses to access encrypted data. Beginning with ONTAP 9.6, you can use one or more KMIP servers to secure the keys a given SVM uses to access encrypted data.

(...)

• You must configure the MetroCluster environment before the key manager is configured."

Do this mean: in case you are using an MC configuration, configure it before enabling KMIP" or does this mean an MC config is required to use KMIP servers. 

Thanks for the clarification. 

https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/encryption-at-rest/enable-external-key-management-96-later-nve-task.html