Pre-operating system environment-based sanitization of storage devices
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsSriram Subramanian, Scotty M. Wiginton
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Abstract
A technique includes, in a pre-operating system environment of a computer system, a hardware processor of the computer system executing machine executable instructions to determine whether a sanitization option was selected in a prior operating system environment of the computer system. In response to determining that the sanitization option was selected, the hardware processor executes the instructions in the pre-operating system environment to determine, for an adapter of the computer system, a storage inventory associated with the adapter and sanitize the storage inventory.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- in a pre-operating system environment of a computer system, a hardware processor of the computer system executing machine executable instructions to determine whether a sanitization option was selected in a prior operating system environment of the computer system;
- and
- in response to the determining that the sanitization option was selected, the hardware processor executing the instructions in the pre-operating system environment to:
- determine, for an adapter of the computer system, a storage inventory associated with the adapter;
- and
- sanitize the storage inventory.
A computer system comprising:
- a plurality of adapters;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory to store instructions that, in pre-operating system environment of computer system, cause the processor to:
- identify the plurality of adapters;
- and
- for each adapter of the plurality of adapters:
- determine a set of at least one storage device associated with the adapter;
- and
- communicate with the adapter to sanitize the set of at least one storage device associated with the adapter.
A non-transitory storage medium that stores machine readable instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:
- determine whether storage sanitization is to be performed in a pre-operating system environment of the machine;
- in response to determining that storage sanitization is to be performed in the pre-operating system environment:
- determine a list of adapters of the machine;
- for each adapter of the list of adapters, communicate with the adapter to cause the adapter to perform a sanitization operation to sanitize one or multiple storage devices associated with the adapter;
- and
- report a status of the sanitization operations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.