Dell Products Inc.

Satyajit Dipakbhai Desai

Sanjeev Dambal

Dinesh Kunnathur Ragupathi

Sundar Dasar

Vance Edward Corn

Kevin Warren Mundt

Sumanth Vidyadhara

Wei G Liu

Rama Rao Bisa

Yogesh Prabhakar Kulkarni

Jon Robert Hass

Cyril Jose

Syama Poluri

Mark W Shutt

Pushkala Iyer

Pavan Kumar

Wayne Robert Weilnau, Jr

Patrick Oliver Boyd

William C Edwards

Sruthi Reddy Mothukupally

Texas Roemer

Selvaraju Subbiah

Krishna P Mohan

Systems and methods for enabling license management in pre-boot environments are described. In some embodiments, a method may include: loading, by a Basic System Input/Output (BIOS) of an Information Handling System (IHS), prior to the booting of any Operating System (OS) by the IHS, a license manager Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) driver; and executing, by the BIOS, a command received from a component or device coupled to the IHS following a license management protocol provided by the UEFI driver, where the command is to obtain or verify license data.

License management in pre-boot environments

An information handling system has a secure data storage partition allocation. Access to the secure storage partition is limited to a set of authorized functions authorized to access the secure storage partition. The authorization of a function may be determined by a unique identification corresponding to the function or a reverse trace.

System and method for securing secure memory allocations in an information handling system

A method and system provide local key management for storage enclosures. The method includes retrieving first security content from a security vault of a service processor, then dynamically detecting a hardware interface communicatively coupled to the service processor. A data storage device, communicatively coupled to the hardware interface is dynamically detected. A dynamic determination is made as to whether the data storage device is a self-encrypting capable data storage device. In response to the data storage device being a self-encrypting capable data storage device, a second security content is retrieved from the data storage device, and a validation regarding an association between the first security content and the second security content is made. Finally, in response to a positive validation of the association between the first security content and the second security content, security keys are transmitted to the data storage device, and access to the data storage device is enabled.

Local key management for storage devices

Methods, devices and systems for identifying storage devices received within a plurality of drive bays, where the devices are identified via a visual indicator associated with each drive bay. A controller identifies storage devices that host booted operating systems. The controller activates the visual indicator associated with drive bays that receive the identified booted storage devices. The visual indicator may be a status light generated by a light source associated with each drive bay. This visual indicator may also be a graphical component of a remote management interface. To identify storage devices with booted operating systems, the controller determines the visual indicators to activate based on information received from a storage controller identifying the storage devices at each bay and an identification of booted drives received from a BIOS. The visual indictors may separately identify booted storage devices and bootable storage devices that are not presently booted.

System and method to remotely detect and report bootable physical disk location

One step server information handling system configuration reduces complexities associated with remote server maintenance through a management network. A configuration end state sent through the management network, such as an XML file, is parsed by a management processor to automatically initiate and complete configuration of the server to the end state without further commands through the management network.

Server information handling system configuration from an end state definition file

Systems and methods are provided that may be used to automatically create RAID configuration with heterogeneous Physical Disk (PD) set up using Virtual Disk (VD) RAID Level and size, for example, to allow replication of a given RAID configuration across multiple different RAID platform systems regardless of the underlying storage disk sizes and/or storage disk types.

Systems and methods for RAID storage configuration using hetereogenous physical disk (PD) set up

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