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CLARiiON and VNX Data Erasure – DIY edition

Open Hard Drive with pencil eraser on platterOver the last couple of months I’ve been busy phasing out an old EMC CLARiiON CX3 system and migrating all the data to either newer VNX and/or Isilon systems. The hard work paid off: the CX3 is now empty and we can start to decommission it. But before we ship it back to EMC we need to employ a type of CLARiiON data erasure to make sure data doesn’t fall into wrong hands.

 

Update 2019-01: You can also use these commands on a VNX. I’ve updated the post with several additional screenshots and fixed a few typo’s.

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