DOD Wipe of a Clariion

if they need certified erasure, it's a service that can be purchased from EMC

http://www.emc.com/collateral/services/consulting/h1321-certified-data-erasure-serv-ss.pdf

that should work, no official letter to cover their behind if somebody does recover something.  If they sign off on that ..go for it. 

Thanks!

I know EMC offers this as a PS engagement, I just wanted to see if this could be done at the array level by the end user. 

Is what I layed out the best way to do from an end user perspective?

If you are using Cisco MDS switches and have any of the hardware listed below you could use Cisco Secure Erase. It also requires the SSE license

  http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps4159/ps6409/ps10729/ps10750/data_sheet_c78-569650.html

• Cisco MDS 9000 18/4-Port Multiservice Module (MSM)

• Cisco MDS 9222i Multiservice Modular Switch

• Cisco MDS 9000 16-Port Storage Services Node (SSN)

The real question is does your customer just want a DOD wipe or do they have to provide documentation certifying that the array was wiped of data?  If they have to prove it to an auditer then you need to engage someone if they just want to be sure the data is gone then you can do this via various means.

If you engage EMC to do this bear in mind the wipe they do can/will erase the vault disks and render the clariion useless.

Another one to try is a product made by Tabernus; http://www.tabernus.com/. They offer a either a software or hardware solution for drive erasure that will generate reports and wipe per DOD standards.

We had to wipe our IBM disks also and used DD on a aix host.

here is the script I used.

date;lsdev -l hdisk0;dd if=/dev/hdisk0 bs=100M | tr -d '\0';date

To be DOD compliant you have to run this 3 or 5 times I think.

This completely writes 0's on every block.

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glen