Volume Shredder operations

This topic describes and provides instructions for performing Volume Shredder operations.

Parent Topic

• Volume Shredder

  The Volume Shredder software enables you to securely erase data on volumes by overwriting existing data to prevent restoration of the erased data. For example, when the user of a volume changes, you may want to purge the data stored by the previous user before giving access to the new user. This method of erasing data by overwriting it with dummy data is referred to as shredding.

Child Topics

• Workflow for shredding
• Blocking a volume

• Blocking volumes in a parity group

• Calculating the number of overwrite passes for flash drives

• Example of shredding data on flash drives

• Calculating the number of overwrite passes for FMDs

• Example of shredding data on FMDs

• Defining shredding conditions

• Shredding a volume
• Shredding volumes in parity groups
• Viewing shredding status with the Tasks window
• Viewing shredding status with the Logical Devices window
• Stopping a shredding operation from HDvM - SN Tasks window

• Stopping a shredding operation from HDvM - SN Interrupt Shredding Task window
• Viewing shredding results with the Tasks window
• Viewing shredding results in the compressed files

• Understanding shredding results in compressed files