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Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 9 (iDRAC9) Version 3.00.00.00 User's Guide

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Instant Erase Secured Physical Disk

Instant Erase Secured Physical Disk ensures the ability to securely erase the contents on a physical Self Encrypting Drives. This feature is also supported for ISE drives. The NVMe PCIe SSDs also support cryptographic erase operation along with SED and ISE drives.

The data still resides on the physical Self Encrypting Drives and ISE drives even after all the virtual disks are deleted. This poses a security risk with data still being on the physical disk. This feature allows the user to securely erase or delete all the data on Self Encrypting Drives and ISE drives. Using this feature, the user is able to erase all SEDs and ISE drives which are connected to a PERC.

NOTE At this point, you can use the System Erase option to securely erase all ISE drives.
This feature is not available in the following conditions:
  • When a physical disk is already used by a VD.
  • When the selected physical disk is neither SED nor ISE drive
  • When the physical disk is used as a hot spare.
This feature is available for:
  • Unconfigured SED drive and ISE drive
  • Foreign configured encrypted drive
  • Unconfigured and Foreign Drive even when an Encryption Key is not present in the controller
NOTE Cryptographic Erase – Use this option against every SED and ISE physical disk to securely erase the SED and ISE physical disk. This configuration is supported by both staged and realtime.

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