Dell Products Inc.

Senthil Kumar Parangusam

James Peter Giannoules

Aniruddha Suresh Herekar

Sheshadri Pathpalya Raghavendra Rao

Rajeswari Ayyaswamy

In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more processes may boot an operating system; after booting the operating system, determine that a solid state drive has been hot added to a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) port; suppress discovery of the solid state drive by the operating system; determine a policy associated with the solid state drive; determine that a current configuration associated with the solid state drive does not match a configuration associated with the policy associated with the solid state drive; determine that the configuration associated with the policy can be applied to the solid state drive; apply the configuration associated with the policy to the solid state drive without utilizing the operating system; and inform the operating system that the solid state drive has been communicatively coupled to at least one processor via a PCIe root complex.

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Round Rock, TX, United States of America

Senthil Kumar Parangusam