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iDRAC9 Security Configuration Guide

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BIOS Recovery and Hardware Root of Trust (RoT)

For PowerEdge server, it is mandatory to recover from corrupted or damaged BIOS image which may have resulted from malicious modification of data, power surges damaging files, or any other unforeseeable events. An alternate reserve of BIOS image would be necessary to recover BIOS in order to bring the PowerEdge server back to functional mode from unbootable mode. This alternative/recovery BIOS is stored in a 2nd serial peripheral interface (SPI) (MUX'ed with primary BIOS SPI).

The recovery sequence can be initiated through any of the following approaches with iDRAC as the main orchestrator of the BIOS recovery task:

  1. Auto recovery of BIOS primary image / recovery image - BIOS image is recovered automatically during the host boot process after the BIOS corruption is detected by BIOS itself.
  2. Forced recovery of BIOS Primary/recovery image - User initiates an out-of-band (OOB) request to update BIOS either because they have a new updated BIOS or BIOS fails to boot or crashes.
  3. Primary BIOS ROM update - The single Primary ROM is split into Data ROM and Code ROM. iDRAC has full access/control over Code ROM. It switches MUX to access Code ROM whenever needed.
  4. BIOS Hardware Root of Trust (RoT) - During every host boot (only cold boot or A/C cycle, not during warm reboot), iDRAC ensues that RoT is performed. RoT runs automatically and user cannot initiate it using any interfaces. This iDRAC boot first policy verifies host BIOS ROM contents on every AC cycle and host DC cycle. This process ensures secure boot of BIOS and further secures the host boot process.

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