Dell Products Inc.

Dell Prodcuts L.p.

Marcelo Silva Saraiva

William Emmett Lynn

Gary Benedict Kotzur

Shane Michael Chiasson

Anand Nunna

Chandrashekar Nelogal

Jacob Cherian

Sanjeev Dambal

Douglas Huang

Walter A O'Brien, Iii

Bernard D Strmiska

James Peter Giannoules

Frank Widjaja Yu

Gregory M Allen

Deepu Syam Sreedhar M

Karthikeyan Rajagopalan

David Rock, Jr

David E Rock

Sura Reddy

Sisir K Dash

A method for managing a storage system includes initiating, by a hardware resource manager, a boot-up of a storage controller managing the storage system comprising a plurality of storage devices, making a determination, by the storage controller, that the storage controller is in a secured mode, based on the determination: identifying a security state of each of the plurality of storage devices, determining that a storage device of the plurality of storage devices is in an unsecured state, and based on the unsecured state, sending, by the storage controller, a security operation request for securing the storage device, obtaining a secure state response from the hardware resource manager corresponding to securing the storage device, and based on the secure state response, resuming operation of the storage controller based on the secure mode.

Method and system for a secure management of storage devices using a key management service

A self-healing Hard Disk Drive (HDD) system includes a chassis housing an HDD device self-healing subsystem coupled to an HDD data storage system that includes a plurality of HDD data storage resources. The HDD device self-healing subsystem prevents data from being stored on a first HDD data storage resource that is included in the plurality of HDD data storage resources included in the HDD data storage system. When the HDD device self-healing subsystem determines that data storage operations using a second HDD data storage resource that is included in the plurality of HDD data storage resources will be subsequently unavailable, it remaps logical addresses associated with the second HDD data storage resource to the first HDD data storage resource, and provides the data that was stored using the second HDD data storage resource on the first HDD data storage resource.

Self-healing hard disk drive system

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.

Securing SEDs behind a HBA controllers with a passthrough mechanism using BMC

A drive assisted storage controller system includes a first storage device that is coupled to a bus that includes a data path and a control path. The first storage device receives via the control path from a storage controller, a first peer-to-peer write command that identifies a host memory address included in a memory system, a first storage location provided in the first storage device, and a second storage location provided in a second storage device coupled to the bus. The first storage device retrieves, via the data path from the host memory address, first write data such that the first write data is not provided through the storage controller. The first storage device provides, via the control path to the second storage device, a second peer-to-peer write command that includes the second storage location. The second peer-to-peer write command causes the second storage device to retrieve the first write data from the first storage device via the data path.

Drive assisted storage controller system and method

Systems and methods for determining the state of health for a capacitor module are provided. In some embodiments, a method for monitoring the health of a capacitor module comprising an array of capacitors is provided. The method may include steps for disabling a charger coupled to an array of capacitors of the capacitor module, determining if the capacitor module is healthy based at least on operating values of the capacitor module, and enabling a write back mode for the memory module if the capacitor module is determined to be healthy.

Systems and methods for determining the state of health of a capacitor module

A receptacle connector may include a housing for housing a first pin and a second pin. The first pin may be of a first length and configured to be coupled to a first corresponding pin of an information handling resource received by the receptacle connector, the first pin comprising two contact bumps for maintaining electrical contact with the first corresponding pin. The second pin may be of a second length and configured to be coupled to a second corresponding pin of the information handling resource. The second length may be substantially shorter than the first length such that when the information handling resource is inserted into the receptacle connector, the first corresponding pin engages with the first pin before the second corresponding pin engages with the second pin. The second pin may comprise one contact bump for maintaining electrical contact with the second corresponding pin.

Connector with staggered electrical pins

In some embodiments, a method for controlling a cache having a volatile memory and a non-volatile memory during a power up sequence is provided. The method includes receiving, at a controller configured to control the cache and a storage device associated with the cache, a signal indicating whether the non-volatile memory includes dirty data copied from the volatile memory to the non-volatile memory during a power down sequence, the dirty data including data that has not been stored in the storage device. In response to the received signal, the dirty data is restored from the non-volatile memory to the volatile memory, and flushed from the volatile memory to the storage device.

Systems and methods for non-volatile cache control

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Marcelo Silva Saraiva