How Do I Destroy Old Zip Disks

[Leo Oquendo]

<div>5) Once filer boots up (set it up with minimum config) and have you gained access to console (filer>), you can then begin the 'sanitizaiton process' on the spare-disks as per the kb article shared earlier.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Are the disks that you intend to convert to 'spare' part of an aggregate ? If yes - You must destroy the aggregate, all the disks will be converted to 'spare'. Before that : Make sure the aggregate does not contain volumes (data) that are or will be neded in future. If so, then first move those volumes to another aggregate.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>How Do I Destroy Old Zip Disks</div><div></div><div>Download: https://t.co/T05xDS9td0 </div><div></div><div></div><div>Hello.</div><div></div><div>We are trying to destroy some old NetApp in 7 mode and i was wondering, if it's possible and how to obtain the sanitize license for these Hardware.</div><div></div><div>The first is a FAS8020 with Data ONTAP 8.2.2P1 7-Mode, and the second one is like FAS8020 but really is a IBM N-Series with Data ONTAP 8.1.4P2 7-Mode. The data were migrated to another hardware a few years ago.</div><div></div><div>Obviusly, they don't have support contract yet (old NAS), but we need to destroy the disks .</div><div></div><div>Is it possible obtain de sanitize license for this old hardware? How we can obtain this license?</div><div></div><div>Thanks a lot.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Hello.</div><div></div><div>As was recommended to me in this post, a case has been opened with NetApp support, but it has not been satisfactory, because we have not obtained the sanitize license that was intended.</div><div></div><div>To obtain it, it was suggested that I open a non-technical case (like the one I opened) against a serial of the machines that would be affected by the sanitize (this is not possible because, as I said, they do not have maintenance).</div><div></div><div>For these reasons we are forced to perform a disk erase instead of sanitize.</div><div></div><div>The erasing of disks that we want to do must be done by CLI commands in order to obtain the evidence and be able to present it.</div><div></div><div>Can you offer us a step-by-step procedure in which we can perform this erasure (disk erasure) of the disks using CLI commands for our old machines in 7 mode?.</div><div></div><div>The official NetApp information that we have seen about the "Disk Clearing" procedure (Disk erasure that NetApp likes to say) executes the command "disk sanitize start -f -p 0x00 -c 1 "</div><div></div><div>Wouldn't this make it essential Have the Sanitize license? We are very confused, please could you provide to us with a clear and effective procedure that does not require a license, step by step for clearing discs?</div><div></div><div>Thank you very much in advance.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I'm within a school environment, with children around, so not sure I'd get away with boiling water or hammers. Microwaving sounds good but as I don't have a way to check the disks aren't working after, I'm not sure it's the best option for me (same with magnets).</div><div></div><div></div><div>A word of warning with throwing floppy's into an open fire. They will produce a very black smoke and you don't want your local FD coming to pay you a visit. Also, it's not very ecologically friendly. That being said it is a very effective way to rid yourself of all the unwanted disks.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Assuming they're 3.5" floppies, break them open, pull the disk out, remove the metal hub in the middle, burn the disks. A shredder on disk itself would likely work too. If they're 5.25" floppies, burn or shred the entire thing.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I need to destroy my whole vSAN cluster, currently 6.7. I did this once before a couple years back and I remember that I had a hell of a time trying to get the disks back as I didn't do something first I think... can't remember what. I've found plenty of articles on deleting the vsan itself, but my vcenter appliance is on the vsan, this is my lab. 4 nodes with 1 x cache ssd and 2 x storage ssds in each node. I am going to reload the nodes with esxi7 and then use vCF to rebuild... but I seem to remember the disks being marked as vsan last time and I couldn't reuse them - possible even had to boot a 3rd party util and blank them or something... can anyone tell me how to tear this thing down in the neatest and shortest time possible please? thank you!</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>The only time removing DGs in this manner *might* fail from the UI is if there is some other problem with the DG/disks (e.g. if they are in a problem state and read-only from an ESXi perspective).</div><div></div><div>If ever you cannot claim disks for use by vSAN it is due to 1. they still have (any) partitions on them, 2. they are for whatever reason not marked as 'local' (maybe they are not locally-attached) or 3. they are not marked as SSD when they are SSDs and being used as such (e.g. ESXi/firmware detection IIRC).</div><div></div><div></div><div>Point 1. above is the most likely cause in 90%+ of occasions and whether the device(s) have existing partitions can be validated via a multitude of manners:</div><div></div><div>- In the vSphere or Host UI: Host > Configure > Storage Devices > Select Device > Partition details</div><div></div><div>- via CLI to the ESXi host: # vdq -q - this shows as 'eligible' or 'ineligible' for vSAN based on this factor.</div><div></div><div>- via CLI to the ESXi host: # ls /dev/disks/ - disks with partitions will show as for example naa.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:1 naa.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:2 (vSAN-formatted disks will always have 2 partitions).</div><div></div><div>If they still have partitions on them and UI delete is not informing of a stateful reason (e.g. device is read-only) then running dd on it should inform of this when running the following (and generally remediated by a host reboot):</div><div></div><div>dd if=/dev/zero of=/vmfs/devices/disks/ bs=1M count=50 conv=notrunc</div><div></div><div>partedUtil mklabel /vmfs/devices/disks/ msdos</div><div></div><div>AGAIN (sorry if seems shouty but necessary ), THE ABOVE IS AN INTENTIONALLY DESTRUCTIVE COMMAND, IF YOU STUMBLED ACROSS THIS POST AND YOU DON'T WANT TO DELETE YOUR DATA, DO NOT RUN THE ABOVE COMMANDS.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Thanks, I thought I had said that my vcenter appliance was running on the cluster, that was why I came here for help as I found several articles on google saying to remove the disk groups and turn off HA - but then you said to do it and ..., no harm done as I am redeploying vcsa anyway. I'm not exactly keen on running the appliance on the single datastore and this is a lab, so I am limited in other storage, though I could probably add another local disk in at least one of my hosts as a safe haven to put things on if I need to, like this. Funny thing is that Dell/EMC set my production vxRail up like this, no extra datastores to put the vcenter or anything else on as the local disks are so small. I've never been completely comfortable with that, but 3 yrs later and its been ok. So back to the problem, I was unable to remove them on the UI be either clearing or editing and deleting. Error message was Failed Cannot change the host configuration... but esxcli to the rescue! I was able to delete all three disks, or clear them or whatever that does and vdq. -q now reports they are all eligible for vsan use... so in my notes, I am just going to put the esxcli commands to remove disks on all the hosts and vdq to make sure that all is good before rebuilding. Seems the simplest and most reliable way to do it to me as, at least until I get around to putting a local storage device in one of the hosts. Thanks again for your help on Christmas Eve! Bonus points for that, now I can get up in the morning and build myself a Christmas present, a new vsan cluster! lol. Christmas is pretty much a non-starter here this year, its all about the food and having a nap afterwards :-). all the best! Bill</div><div></div><div></div><div>I crush CDs and DVDs with my bare hands or a paper shredder designed to have disks fed in. We contract a licensed and bonded document destruction company for paper shredding in general. The same company takes our old hard drive platters and crushes/shreds them as needed.</div><div></div><div> dd2b598166</div>