Workflow For Shredding; Blocking A Volume - Hitachi G1000 User Manual

Workflow for shredding

Use the following workflow to shred volumes using Volume Shredder:
1. Viewing shredding status with the Logical Devices window on page 2-10
(Volume status should be Normal.)
2. Blocking a volume on page 2-2
3. Calculating the number of overwrite passes for flash drives on page 2-4
if you are shredding a volume on a flash drive.
Or,
you are shredding a volume on an FMD.
4. Defining shredding conditions on page 2-6
5. Shredding a volume on page 2-7
6. Stopping a shredding operation on page 2-10
7. Viewing shredding results in the compressed files on page 2-12
results in the results file.

Blocking a volume

You must have the Storage Administrator (Provisioning) role to perform this
task.
To block a volume:
1. Display the volume to be blocked:
In Hitachi Command Suite:
a. On the Resources tab, click Storage Systems, expand All
b. Right-click one of the following, depending on the location of the
c. If you selected DP Pools in step (b), select the pool that contains
In Device Manager - Storage Navigator (mainframe-only environment):
Choose one of the following steps, depending on the location of the
volume:
2. Confirm the current status of the volume you want to block by viewing
the Status column of the table.
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Calculating the number of overwrite passes for FMDs on page 2-5
Storage Systems, and then expand the target storage system.
volume, Volumes, DP Pools, or Parity Groups, and then select
System GUI.
the virtual volume you want to block, and then click the Virtual
Volumes tab.
To display the LDEVs tab, in the Storage Systems tree, select
Parity Groups, Internal, or External, and then select the parity
group that contains the volume you want to block.
To display the LDEVs tab, in the Storage Systems tree, select
Logical Devices.
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 block.
Volume Shredder operations
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to check