Abstract: A read-disturb-based read temperature information access system includes a read-disturb-based read temperature information management subsystem coupled to a plurality of storage devices that each include a read-disturb-based read temperature information Application Programming Interface (API). Each storage device generates and stores read-disturb-based read temperature information associated with that storage device, and when a read-disturb-based read temperature information command is received from the read-disturb-based read temperature information management subsystem that conforms to the read-disturb-based read temperature information API, the storage device receiving that read-disturb-based read temperature information command will execute it to perform at least one operation using the read-disturb-based read temperature information associated with and stored by that storage device.

Abstract: A read-disturb-based read temperature identification system includes storage device(s) that each determine read disturb information for each block in that storage device, use that read disturb information to identify a subset of rows in at least one block in that storage device that have a higher read temperature than the other rows in the at least one block in that storage device and, based on that identification, generate and store a local logical storage element read temperature map that identifies a subset of logical storage elements associated with that storage device that have a higher read temperature than the other logical storage elements associated with that storage device. A global read temperature identification subsystem coupled to the storage device(s) may then retrieve at least a portion of the local logical storage element read temperature map(s) and use them to generate a global logical storage element read temperature map.

Abstract: A read-disturb-based logical storage read temperature identification system includes a global read temperature identification subsystem coupled to at least one storage device. Each at least one storage device identifies read disturb information associated with rows provided by the at least one physical block in that storage device from at least one physical block in that storage device, and maps the read disturb information associated with the rows provided by the at least one physical block in that storage device to one or more logical storage elements included in a logical-to-physical storage element mapping for that storage device to generate a local logical storage element read temperature map. Each at least one storage device may then provide its local logical storage element read temperature map to the global read temperature identification subsystem.

Abstract: A communication system personality provisioning system includes a communication system included in a computing system and coupled to a management system. The communication system stores authentication information in a UEFI database of a UEFI system in the communication system. The communication system receives a first operating software image and application/service from the management system, authenticates the first operating software image and application/service via first secure initialization operations performed by the UEFI system using the authentication information and, in response, installs the first operating software image and application/service on the communication system.

Abstract: A read-disturb-based read temperature time-based attenuation system includes a storage device that is coupled to a global read temperature identification subsystem. The storage device determines current read disturb information for data stored in a block in the storage device during a current time period, processes the current read disturb information and previous read disturb information that was determined during at least one previous time period that was prior to the current time period in order to generate a read temperature for the data stored in the block, generates a local logical storage element read temperature map that includes the read temperature, and provides the local logical storage element map to the global read temperature identification subsystem.

Abstract: A ransomware protection smart network interface controller (SmartNIC) is configured to create a secure snapshot of a boot device of an information handling system (IHS), create a secure alternate boot device on each boot of the IHS, and export the boot device and the secure alternate boot device to the IHS. The IHS is configured to set a boot order of the IHS, with the secure alternate boot device immediately after the boot device in the boot order. The ransomware protection SmartNIC may also be configured to create a read and writeable snapshot from the secure snapshot of the IHS boot device, and may delete, on each subsequent boot of the IHS, the read and writeable snapshot for the prior boot, and create a new read and writeable snapshot from a secure snapshot of the IHS boot device from the subsequent boot of the IHS.

Abstract: An information handling system ransomware protection device has a ransomware protection engine that implements secure snapshot policies in a domain of a storage device by taking a secure snapshot of a data object, by creating a point in time image of a storage object and retaining the point in time image of the storage object until a retention timer has expired. The ransomware protection engine also implements snapshot virtualization in the domain of the storage device by mapping the secure snapshot, and may implement vault semantics and operational controls to data in the domain of the storage device as management functions of the secure snapshot. The ransomware protection device may be, or include, an application specific integrated circuit that includes the ransomware protection engine and is coupled to, or in, the storage device, or a memory controller of the storage device may include the ransomware protection engine.

Abstract: A ransomware protection smart network interface controller (SmartNIC) is configured to implement data protection in a domain of the SmartNIC by taking a secure snapshot, a point in time image of a storage object, and retaining the point in time image of the storage object until a retention timer has expired, and implementing vault semantics and operational controls. The ransomware protection SmartNIC is also configured to implement ransomware detection in the domain of the SmartNIC by implementing inline ransomware attack detection and/or near-line ransomware attack detection, using periodic snapshots, by evaluating probability of a ransomware attack based, at least in part, on a delta change set in consecutive snapshots. The ransomware protection SmartNIC is further configured to implement ransomware protection policies in the domain of the SmartNIC by implementing policies of when the secure snapshots are taken.

Abstract: A method for facilitating a connection to a storage volume, that includes receiving, by a storage manager, an access request from compute node, where the access request includes a storage volume identifier associated with the storage volume, performing a lookup, in a target database, to identify a target entry that includes the storage volume identifier, making a first determination that the target database does not comprise the target entry, and based on the first determination, creating a first storage target cluster for the storage volume, and sending first connection instructions to the compute node, where the first connection instructions comprise a first storage target cluster identifier associated with the first storage target cluster.

Abstract: A read-disturb-based read temperature determination system includes a storage device that is coupled to a read temperature adjustment subsystem. The storage device receives data from the read temperature adjustment subsystem, stores the data in a block in the storage device, identifies read disturb information for a row in the block at a plurality of different times, processes the read disturb information to generate a read temperature for the row, provides the read temperature in a local logical storage element read temperature map and, based on instructions from the read temperature adjustment subsystem, adjusts the read temperature provided in the local logical storage element read temperature map.

Abstract: A system for providing computer implemented services using information handling systems includes persistent storage and a system control processor manager. The system control processor manager instantiates composed information handling systems using the information handling systems; monitors, using system control processors of the composed information handling systems, operation of the composed information handling systems to obtain operation information; makes a determination, based on the operation information, that the computing implemented services provided by the composed information handling systems are substandard; and in response to the determination: manages operation of the composed information handling systems to provide standards compliant computer implemented services by modifying a composition of at least one of the composed information handling systems using a system control processor of the system control processors.

Abstract: A read disturb information determination system includes a storage device coupled to a global read temperature identification system. The storage device reads, from a first row in a storage subsystem in the storage device, data stored in bits that were previously identified as being susceptible to read disturb effects, and error correction information associated with the data. The storage device uses the error correction information to identify a number of the bits that store portions of the data with errors and, based on the number of bits that store portions of the data with errors, determines read disturb information for the first row in the storage subsystem in the storage device. The storage device then uses the read disturb information to generate a read temperature for a second row in the storage subsystem in the storage device, and provides the read temperature to the global read temperature identification system.

Abstract: A read-disturb-based read temperature information persistence system includes a storage device coupled to a host subsystem. The storage device receives a first instruction from the host subsystem to write first data to the storage device, writes the first data to a first block in the storage device, and determines first read temperature(s) for the first data based on first read disturb information associated with the first block in the storage device. When a second instruction is received from the host subsystem to write second data to the storage device that is an updated version of the first data, the storage device identifies the first read temperature(s) determined for the first data in the first block in the storage device, and writes the second data and a first read temperature indication of the at least one first read temperature to a second block in the storage device.

Abstract: A storage device read-disturb-based block read temperature utilization system includes a storage device chassis housing a storage subsystem. A local read temperature utilization subsystem in the storage device chassis determines that data in a first block in the storage subsystem should be moved and, in response determines read disturb information for the first block and uses it to identify relative read temperatures for a plurality of rows in the first block in the storage subsystem. The local read temperature utilization system then moves the data from the first block in the storage subsystem to at least one second block in the storage subsystem based on the relative read temperatures identified for the plurality of rows in the first block in the storage subsystem.

Abstract: A read-disturb-based logical storage read temperature information maintenance system includes a global read temperature identification subsystem coupled to storage device(s). Each storage device identifies, from a physical block in that storage device, current read disturb information associated with a row provided by the physical block in that storage device, and maps the current read disturb information to logical storage element(s) included in a logical-to-physical storage element mapping for that storage device along with previous read disturb information that was previously mapped to those logical storage element(s) included in the logical-to-physical storage element mapping for that storage device.

Abstract: A read-disturb-based read temperature adjustment system includes a read temperature adjustment subsystem that is coupled to the storage device. The read temperature adjustment subsystem identifies data that is stored in a block in the storage device and that is associated with a read temperature that is based on read disturb information associated with the block, determines a read temperature adjustment level for the data based on one or more data characteristics of the data and, based on the read temperature adjustment level, transmits a read temperature adjustment instruction to the storage device that causes the storage device to adjust the read temperature associated with the data.

Abstract: A storage device read-disturb-based read temperature map utilization system includes a storage device chassis housing a storage subsystem. A local read temperature utilization subsystem in the storage device chassis determines read disturb information for a plurality of blocks in the storage subsystem, uses it to identify a subset of rows in block(s) in the storage subsystem that have a relatively higher read temperature and, based on those read temperature identifications, generates a local logical storage element read temperature map that identifies a subset of logical storage elements associated with the storage subsystem that have a relatively higher read temperature. The local read temperature utilization subsystem then moves data from first block(s) in the storage subsystem to second block(s) in the storage subsystem based on relative read temperatures identified in the local logical storage element read temperature map.

Abstract: A read-disturb-based physical storage read temperature information identification system includes a global read temperature identification subsystem coupled to at least one storage device. Each at least one storage device reads valid data and obsolete data from at least one physical block in that storage device and, based on the reading of the valid data and the obsolete data, generates read disturb information associated with each row provided by the at least one physical block in that storage device. Each at least one storage devices then uses the read disturb information associated with each row provided by the at least one physical block in that storage device to generate a local logical storage element read temperature map for that storage device that it provides to the global read temperature identification subsystem.

Abstract: A platform root-of-trust system includes a System Control Processor (SCP) subsystem coupled to a central processing subsystem, a BIOS subsystem, and an I/O device. In response to an initialization instruction, the SCP subsystem begins initialization operations prior to the beginning of initialization operations for the central processing subsystem, the BIOS subsystem, and the I/O device. As part of SCP initialization operations, the SCP subsystem validates SCP subsystem initialization information to provide validated SCP subsystem initialization information, and uses the validated SCP subsystem initialization information to complete the SCP initialization operations.

Abstract: A read-disturb-based read temperature information utilization system includes a read-disturb-based read temperature information utilization subsystem coupled to a storage subsystem including storage devices that each generate local read-disturb-based read temperature information associated with that storage device. The read-disturb-based read temperature information utilization subsystem retrieves at least some of the local read-disturb-based read temperature information generated by each storage device and a number of reads associated with that storage device and, based on the number of reads associated with each of the storage devices, normalizes the at least some of the local read-disturb-based read temperature information retrieved from each of the storage devices to generate normalized local read-disturb-based read temperature information for each of the storage devices.