Administrator Guide
• Conguration of self-encrypting drives for Dell’s SED management dier between NVMe and non-NVMe (SATA) drives, as follows.
• Any NVMe drive that is being leveraged as an SED – The BIOS’ SATA operation must be set to RAID ON, as Dell’s SED
management does not support AHCI on NVMe drives.
• Any NVMe drive that is being leveraged as an SED – The BIOS's boot mode must be UEFI and Legacy option ROMs must be
disabled.
• Any non-NVMe drive that is being leveraged as an SED – The BIOS’ SATA operation must be set to AHCI, as Dell’s SED
management does not support RAID with non-NVMe drives.
• RAID ON is not supported because access to read and write RAID-related data (at a sector that is not available on a locked non-
NVMe drive) is not accessible at start-up, and cannot wait to read this data until after the user is logged on.
• The operating system will crash when switched from RAID ON > AHCI if the AHCI controller drivers are not pre-installed. For
instructions on how to switch from RAID > AHCI (or vice versa), see http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/
SLN306460.
Supported OPAL compliant SEDs require updated Intel Rapid Storage Technology Drivers, located at http://www.dell.com/support/
home/us/en/19/product-support/product/dell-dp-endpt-security-suite/drivers. Dell recommends Intel Rapid Storage Technology
Driver version 15.2.0.0 or later, with NVMe drives.
• SED Management is not supported with Server Encryption.
OPAL Drivers
• Supported OPAL compliant SEDs require updated Intel Rapid Storage Technology Drivers, located at http://www.dell.com/support.
SED Client Prerequisites
• The Endpoint Security Suite Pro master installer installs the following prerequisites if not already installed on the computer. When using
the child installer, you must install these components before installing SED management.
Prerequisites
• Visual C++ 2012 Update 4 or later Redistributable Package (x86 and x64)
• Visual C++ 2015 Update 3 or later Redistributable Package (x86 and x64)
SED Client Hardware
OPAL Compliant SEDs
• For the most up-to-date list of Opal compliant SEDs supported with the SED management, refer to this KB article: http://
www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN296720.
Dell Computer Models Supported with UEFI
• The following table details Dell computer models supported with UEFI.
Dell Computer Models - UEFI Support
• Latitude 3180
• Latitude 3189
• Latitude 3380
• Latitude 3480
• Latitude 3580
• Latitude 5280
• Latitude 5480
•
Precision M3510
• Precision M3520
• Precision M4800
• Precision M5510
• Precision M5520
• Precision M6800
• Precision M7510
• Precision M7520
• Optiplex 3040 Micro, Mini
Tower, Small Form Factor
• Optiplex 3046
• OptiPlex 3050 All-In-One
• OptiPlex 3050 Tower, Small
Form Factor, Micro
• Optiplex 5040 Mini Tower,
Small Form Factor
• Venue Pro 11 (Models
5175/5179)
• Venue Pro 11 (Model 7139)
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Requirements