Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Dell Products Inc.

Weixing Wang

Michael Lee Burriss

Gregory William Lazar

Vasudevan Subramanian

Mahadevan Vasudevan

Jochen F De Smet

Animesh Singh

Gregory W Lazar

Benjamin Kelley

Colleen Marie Jacobson

A distributed data storage system includes clusters of data storage appliances interconnected by an inter-cluster (IC) network having an IC namespace. Storage processing (SP) nodes exchange management traffic using mesh network (MN) addresses of a separate MN namespace. Gateways provide IC tunnels for routing management traffic among the clusters using IC network addresses. Operation includes, in each gateway for traffic from a local SP node destined for a remote SP node of another cluster, (1) performing a routing check based on a routing rule associating an MN destination address with a dummy MN address further associated with a respective IC tunnel, (2) applying a tunnel configuration rule of the IC tunnel associating the MN destination address with the IC network address of a remote gateway for the remote SP, and (3) forwarding the traffic on the respective IC tunnel using the IC network address of the remote gateway.

Distributed data storage system with tunneling of management requests among scale-out clusters

A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a re-initialization operation request for a storage array, the storage array including a plurality of self-encrypting drives. A reversion state may be determined for each self-encrypting drive of the plurality of self-encrypting drives. In response to determining that at least one self-encrypting drive is in an unreverted state, at least one predefined reversion key for reverting the at least one self-encrypting drive from a predefined area of the storage array may be accessed. Each self-encrypting drive of the plurality of self-encrypting drives in the unreverted state may be reverted to a reverted state using the at least one predefined reversion key.

System and method for self-encrypting drive reversion during re-initialization of a storage array

An installation image of a virtual storage appliance (VSA) is protected by initiating VSA installation from an archive image establishing a pre-installation operating state. The archive image includes an installation image with a lockbox storing a first key for accessing the installation image. The lockbox is encrypted using a second key derived from a stable system value (SSV), such as data for device partitioning, obtainable from an execution environment in the pre-installation operating state. During installation, the SSV is obtained and used in decrypting the lockbox to retrieve the first key and use the installation image to install the VSA. The VSA is installed in a manner establishing a post-installation operating in which the SSV is no longer obtainable from the execution environment, e.g., due to changing the device partition information. An SSV obtained from the partition information post-installation does not yield the key for decrypting the lockbox, protecting the installed image.

Secured virtual storage appliance installation image

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