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April 4th, 2018 06:00

Erase Data on VNX5300

HI Guys,

is there any tool from EMC available to erase secure the data from a VNX5300?

I'm looking for an official way and not a third Party tool!

We must return our VNX to the leasingcompany.

THX

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April 4th, 2018 09:00

yes EMC does offer a data erasure service that supports the 5300

Its a professional service offering with custom hw/sw that should also provide certificates

please contact your local EMC or partner sales for pricing

April 4th, 2018 23:00

Hi,

I found this online.

Is this equivalent to the PS-Service? What do this command exactly?

naviseccli -h zerodisk -messner getzeromark


Regards,

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April 5th, 2018 05:00

no - its not

the PS service uses different hardware and software to ensure certified data erasure

our PS tools do multiple overwrites and also cover the disks reserved for the VNX OE

the above is an old internal command that wont zero any data - it just shows the status of zerodisk

June 13th, 2018 00:00

These commands still work:

zerodisk -messner all start

zerodisk -messner all status

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June 14th, 2018 13:00

It may work, but it's not a "secure" erase.

glen

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June 27th, 2018 13:00

What if you do it 7 times?

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June 28th, 2018 07:00

even if you do it 777 times its still not enough for some security regulations

if it feels secure enough for you thats fine - we wont guarantee it

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April 13th, 2021 01:00

Would deleting the various storage pools and reshuffling the disks help with ensuring data is not retrievable?

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April 13th, 2021 10:00

Hi,

It wouldn’t hurt to do that.

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