Hi Guys,

I am working on both IBM DS and VMAX. I have idea about data erasure in vmax having permanent spare, when the disk fails data is automatically erased.

I was getting soft errors in IBM DS disk and we planned to replace the disk. I failed the disk and replaced it withing seconds. Now questions are:

1) Can we fail the disk in VMAX?

2) If yes --  EMC FE will replace the drive once we fail it so will it erase the data within seconds?

3) If no  --  EMC FE will just pull out the disk and in that case too I hope data will not be erased.

So what happens in this case with data? Please educate me on this.

Thanks,

Shailender