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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2019
Dell Products, Lp, Round Rock, TX (US);
Balaji Bapu Gururaja Rao, Austin, TX (US);
Cyril Jose, Austin, TX (US);
Chandrashekar Nelogal, Round Rock, TX (US);
Akshata Sheshagiri Naik, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A converged infrastructure includes a shared device and compute devices. The compute devices include a baseboard management controller and applications including one or more entitled initiators. The baseboard management controllers generate a distributed provision list including certificates chains for the entitled initiators; and configure the shared device with the certificate chains. The shared device receive a critical command and an encrypted hash, determine a calculated hash of the critical command, decrypt the encrypted hash using keys from the certificate chains, and compare the calculated hash with the decrypted hashes to determine if the critical command comes from one of the entitled initiators.