Volume Shredder operations

This topic describes and provides instructions for performing Hitachi Volume Shredder operations:

• 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

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