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April 6th, 2010 07:00

How to decommission cx-700

Hello,

We are shutting down our data center in a few months. All of our Oracle disgroups, etc, are on the cx-700. After logically removing the diskgroups from the servers(deport, unmount file systems), what are the steps I can take to unbind all luns at once within a storage group instead of doing them one at a time?

Thank you!

Happadm

  • Allen Ward

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    Short of having the array reinitialized, I don't think there is any way to "mass destroy" LUNs.

    Probably your best bet would be to script something with NaviSecCLI that you can feed the LUN IDs to.

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    Posted April 6th, 2010 07:00

    I hope so, I am putting together the project plan for the final shutdown and so I won't know until I try it.

  • dynamox

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    Posted April 6th, 2010 07:00

    Once you take them out of the storage group, can't you highlight multiple LUNs and select unbind ?

  • happyadm

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    Posted April 6th, 2010 07:00

    It's looking like we will be getting it ready for a reseller so I am assuming we would want to wipe it clean at this point.

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    Posted April 6th, 2010 07:00

    Thanks Allen. So if I want to completely reintialize the array, what do I do?

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    Is the array being completely decommissioned, or shipped elsewhere for reuse?

    If it is a total decommission, you may want to consider just leaving it as is and engaging EMC to do a certified wipe of the array. That will certainly take care of it for you, as well as making it safe to dispose of however you like.

  • Allen Ward

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    Posted April 6th, 2010 08:00

    If it is going to a reseller I highly recommend getting it wiped clean and certified. If you don't you run the risk of your data being recovered and showing up where you least expect (or desire).

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    Posted April 6th, 2010 08:00

    I've never seen a process for this, but I suspect it is something you would have to have a CE do for you.

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    Posted April 6th, 2010 08:00

    PS or CE will come out onsite with a secure erasure kit. It's a laptop connected to SPs ..where they PXE boot SPs and run multiple passes erasing the drives. We don’t' have to return our arrays so we shred our drives.

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    Posted April 6th, 2010 08:00

    That's ok, thanks Aran!