# Creating Wikis

The Wiki service ties into assets throughout the environment. Create pages for Instances, hosts, groups, Clouds, and even clusters directly on their detail pages (see the Wiki tab). Users may also just create general notes pages in the centralized Wiki section (Operations > Wiki) in Markdown format.

Creating your first page is as simple as clicking the Create Page button from the Wiki home page (Operations > Wiki).

![create wiki](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007620en_us/GUID-4029426C-1AA2-4873-AE1C-CB4677EFB0F7-high.png)

Write down some content, give the page a title, and click SAVE. The Wiki will also keep track of who last edited a page and when. The beauty of this Wiki is that it’s clean and easy to write down notes related to various parts of your application deployment or infrastructure without going to an external tool. Many VM Essentials constructs, such as Instances, hosts, and more, also have their own Wiki page. Navigate to the detail page for the selected construct, open the Wiki tab, and click EDIT to add content.

IMPORTANT

All wiki pages are encrypted using AES-256 bit encryption. Though we don’t advise storing passwords in a Wiki document (services like Cypher are for that), role-based access control also can properly restrict access to content related to Instances or hosts which the user may not have access to.
