Pure Storage, Inc.
ENCRYPTING DATA IN A NON-VOLATILE MEMORY EXPRESS ('NVMe') STORAGE DEVICE

Abstract:

Data protection in a storage system that includes a plurality of Non-Volatile Memory Express (`NVMe`) Solid State Drives (`SSDs`), including: retrieving, from a plurality of NVMe SSDs (`Non-Volatile Memory Express Solid State Drives`) of a storage system, one or more unencrypted shares of a master secret; reconstructing the master secret using the shares of the master secret; decrypting one or more encrypted device keys using the master secret; and using the decrypted device keys to perform a plurality of accesses to one or more of the NVMe SSDs.