Thank you for your explanation.
this is a great information.
We need to dispose of the equipment we have introduced to our customers in the future.
Customers requested us to prevent data leakage.
I was asked to erase the data.
We can handle Zeroing and Sanitizing in case of FAS.
However, this time it is the configuration of FlexArray.
FAS8060 recognizes E5660 and E2812 as a shelf,
The LUN on the E series is recognized as a FAS disk.
There is a limit to erasing from FAS (erasing is only for physical disks), so I am trying to erase data on the E series.
Method 1 is Santricity Storage Manager> Hardware> Disk>
Advanced> Initilize ..
I tried to run it, but I can't. (It is grayed out and cannot be selected)
Same issue appeared
KB:
https://community.netapp.com/t5/E-Series-SANtricity-and-Related-Plug-ins-Discussions/Zero-disks-on-E-series/td-p/140253
Method 2 is Santricity Storage Manager> Volume> Adavnced>
Initilize ..
We could start job. However, the E5660 has 360 volumes
It takes a lot of time to manually delete 1 Volume at a time.
work cost becomes expensive, so it is not realistic work.
It will be a work content that will be lost. Therefore, efficiently
I'm looking for a way to perform data deletion.
Problem with Method 1 "(Initilized ..) is grayed out"
I would like to know if there is a way to improve.
This is the disk initialization (data erasing work) on the E series.
(Like a FAS disk sanitize)
I recognize that it can be said to be work.
(I do not care about the granularity and accuracy level of data deletion this time.)
When dealing with method 2, it is not realistic to work one by one
Therefore, I think that there is no choice but to implement it collectively.
(For example, assuming that one process takes 10 hours,
It takes 36 days if 10 can be erased a day. )
You can also understand how to write data (zero) from another server to the E series.
However, after deleting data from FAS, FAS unmounts E-series. When the E series is mounted from the server, write processing (zero) is executed.
You need to calculate the time. However, currently server specifications and
The validity of simultaneous parallel processing is not understood.
Therefore, can not tell the sales manager how many hours you can finish the workload.
(Is it one week, one month, or three months?)
In short, We would like to know an estimate of working time.
Best Regards,