Info Needed on Dell R570 Server wrt. SSD supporting Self Encryption Drives.

[maheshkr83]

Hello Dell Team,

My Current Dell R570 server has below SSD Drive.

Manufacturer": "Samsung Electronics Co Ltd",
"MediaType": "SSD",
"Model": "Dell DC NVMe PM9D3a RI E3.S 1.92TB",
"Name": "PCIe SSD in Slot 1 in Bay 1",

From this information. Can you let me know whether this SSD supports : BIOS/UEFI Self-Encrypting Drives (SED), utilizing the EFI Storage Security Command Protocol ?

Many Wishes
Mahesh Kumar R

[myoscodeRahul]

Also @texroemer
Can you please tell if BIOS in R470 and R570 supports this feature?

BIOS/UEFI shall support Self-Encrypting Drives (SED), utilizing the EFI Storage Security Command Protocol.

[texroemer]

Hi @maheshkr83

To identify if drive installed is SED, check property EncryptionAbility under Drive schema.

Example of SED drive:

[root@localhost ~]# curl -X GET 'https://192.168.0.120/redfish/v1/Systems/System.Embedded.1/Storage/RAID.SL.3-1/Drives/Disk.Bay.3:Enclosure.Internal.0-1:RAID.SL.3-1?$select=EncryptionAbility' -u root:calvin --insecure | jq
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   258  100   258    0     0    213      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:--   213
{
  "@odata.context": "/redfish/v1/$metadata#Drive.Drive",
  "@odata.id": "/redfish/v1/Systems/System.Embedded.1/Storage/RAID.SL.3-1/Drives/Disk.Bay.3:Enclosure.Internal.0-1:RAID.SL.3-1",
  "@odata.type": "#Drive.v1_19_0.Drive",
  "EncryptionAbility": "SelfEncryptingDrive"
}

Example of non SED drive:

[root@localhost ~]# curl -X GET 'https://192.168.0.130/redfish/v1/Systems/System.Embedded.1/Storage/CPU.1/Drives/Disk.Bay.0:Enclosure.Internal.0-1?$select=EncryptionAbility' -u root:calvin --insecure | jq
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   225  100   225    0     0     52      0  0:00:04  0:00:04 --:--:--    54
{
  "@odata.context": "/redfish/v1/$metadata#Drive.Drive",
  "@odata.id": "/redfish/v1/Systems/System.Embedded.1/Storage/CPU.1/Drives/Disk.Bay.0:Enclosure.Internal.0-1",
  "@odata.type": "#Drive.v1_21_0.Drive",
  "EncryptionAbility": "None"
}

@myoscodeRahul

Yes those platforms are supported but you must have SED drives installed.

Thanks
Tex