US Patent Application 17729732. SECURING SEDS BEHIND A HBA CONTROLLERS WITH A PASSTHROUGH MECHANISM USING BMC simplified abstract
SECURING SEDS BEHIND A HBA CONTROLLERS WITH A PASSTHROUGH MECHANISM USING BMC
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Inventor(s)
Deepu Syam Sreedhar M of Calicut (IN)
Chandrashekar Nelogal of Round Rock TX (US)
Marcelo S. Saraiva of Austin TX (US)
Sanjeev S. Dambal of Austin TX (US)
SECURING SEDS BEHIND A HBA CONTROLLERS WITH A PASSTHROUGH MECHANISM USING BMC - A simplified explanation of the abstract
- This abstract for appeared for US patent application number 17729732 Titled 'SECURING SEDS BEHIND A HBA CONTROLLERS WITH A PASSTHROUGH MECHANISM USING BMC'
Simplified Explanation
The abstract describes a method and system for managing a storage system. It mentions that in traditional implementations, the host bus adapter (HBA) is unable to secure a self-encrypting drive (SED). Instead, one or more embodiments of the invention propose using a baseboard management controller (BMC) to manage the security of the SEDs and their security life cycle. The HBA acts as a conduit between the SED and BMC.
Original Abstract Submitted
In general, embodiments of the invention relate to a method and system for managing a storage system. In many traditional implementations host bus adapter (HBA) manages the storage device, however frequently the HBA cannot implement the necessary methods to secure a self-encrypting drive (SED). One or more embodiments of the invention use a baseboard management controller (BMC) to manage the security of the SEDs as well as the security life cycle of the SEDs, while the HBA acts as a passthrough conduit between the SED and BMC.
