Chapter 4: Features Of Dell Hba355I And Dell Hba355E; Hardware Root Of Trust; Non-Raid Drives; Event Management Support For Dell Hba355I And Dell Hba355E - Dell HBA355i User Manual

Features of Dell HBA355i and Dell HBA355e
The Dell HBA355i (both adapter and front form factors) and Dell HBA355e cards support the following features. Additionally,
Dell HBA355e supports MD1400, MD1420 and ME484 enclosures, and tape drives.
Topics:
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Hardware Root of Trust

• Non–RAID drives
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Event management support for Dell HBA355i and Dell HBA355e

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LED activity

Hardware Root of Trust
Hardware Root of Trust (RoT) builds a chain of trust by authenticating all the firmware components prior to its execution,
and it permits only authenticated firmware to execute and flashed. Hardware RoT establishes a chain of trust by executing the
initial firmware code from immutable internal boot ROM (IBR) and this process authenticates and builds a chain of trust with
succeeding software using this root of trust.
Non–RAID drives
Dell HBA355i andDell HBA355e support non–RAID drives. The drives that are connected to the controller are individual disks
which cannot be combined into a RAID volume.
Event management support for Dell HBA355i and Dell
HBA355e
Event management for HBA controllers are through iDRAC and OMSS. See the iDRAC and OMSS documentation for more
information .
LED activity
The Dell HBA355i and Dell HBA355e controllers are equipped with status LEDs.
Table 2. LED behavior for drive
LED state
Off
Green
Flashing green
Table 3. LED behavior for HBA355e
LED status
Indicates one of the following:
● Power is off.
● All the links are disconnected.
● The cable is disconnected.
Drive is connected and functional.
Active when you perform the locate operation.
Features of Dell HBA355i and Dell HBA355e
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