Shredding a volume
Before you begin
You must have the Storage Administrator (Provisioning) role to perform this task.
Procedure
Display the volume to be shredded:
In Command Suite:
On the Resources tab, click Storage Systems, and then expand All Storage Systems and the target storage system.
Right-click one of the following, depending on the location of the volume, Volumes, DP Pools, or Parity Groups, and then select System GUI.
If you selected DP Pools in step (b), select the pool that contain the virtual volume you want to block, and then click the Virtual Volumes tab.
In Device Manager - Storage Navigator:
Choose one of the following steps, depending on the location of the volume:
To display the LDEVs tab, in the Storage Systems tree, select Logical Devices, or select Parity Groups, Internal, or External and then select the parity group that contains the volume you want to shred.
To display the Virtual Volumes tab, in the Storage Systems tree, select Pools, and then select the pool that contains the virtual volume you want to shred.
Select the volume you want to shred and confirm the current status of the volume by viewing the Status column of the table.
If the volume is already blocked, Blocked appears in the status column.
If the volume is not blocked, a status other than Blocked appears in the status column. In this case, you need to block the volume before you can shred it. See Blocking a volume.
Click More Actions > Shred LDEVs.
To save the shredding results to a file, click Set Data Output (you can output the shredding results of up to three volumes). If you don’t want to save the results to a file, click Cancel Data Output.
Click Finish.
Verify the settings in the Shred LDEVs window.
When the settings are correct, enter a unique task name or accept the default name, and click Apply.
If Go to tasks window for status is selected, the Tasks window will open.
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