US Patent:
20230132176, Apr 27, 2023
Inventors:
- Round Rock TX, US
James Peter Giannoules - Round Rock TX, US
Marcelo S. Saraiva - Austin TX, US
Karthik Rajagopalan - Austin TX, US
Sanjeev S. Dambal - Austin TX, US
Sisir K. Dash - Bangalore, IN
Sura Reddy - Kothapalli, IN
International Classification:
G06F 21/78
H04L 9/08
H04L 9/06
G06F 9/4401
G06F 3/06
Abstract:
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.