Users Guide

Features of Dell HBA355i
The Dell HBA355i card supports the following features and is applicable to both adapter and front form factors.
Topics:
• Hardware Root of Trust
• Non–RAID drives
• Event management of Dell HBA355i
• 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
The Dell HBA355i supports non–RAID drives. The drives that are connected to the controller are individual disks which cannot
be clubbed into a RAID volume.
Event management of Dell HBA355i
The Dell HBA355i supports an event mechanism for drive removal and insertion events.
LED activity
The Dell HBA355i controller is equipped with status LEDs.
Table 2. LED behavior
LED state LED status
Off Indicates one of the following:
● Power is off
● All the links are disconnected
● The cable is disconnected
Green Drive is connected and functional
Flashing green Active when you perform the locate operation
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