HP XP7 Storage - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Overview of Volume Shredder......................................................................4
Data security practices and Volume Shredder...............................................................................4
Supported volume types............................................................................................................4
Volume Shredder operations......................................................................................................4
Shredding times.......................................................................................................................5
2 Volume Shredder operations........................................................................8
Workflow for shredding.............................................................................................................8
Blocking a volume....................................................................................................................8
Blocking volumes in a parity group.............................................................................................9
Calculating the number of overwrite passes for flash drives.............................................................9
Example of shredding data on flash drives............................................................................10
Calculating the number of overwrite passes for FMDs..................................................................10
Example of shredding data on FMDs....................................................................................10
Defining shredding conditions..................................................................................................11
Shredding a volume................................................................................................................12
Shredding volumes in parity groups..........................................................................................13
Viewing shredding status with the Task window..........................................................................13
Viewing shredding status with the Logical Device window............................................................13
Stopping a shredding operation...............................................................................................14
Viewing shredding results with the Tasks window........................................................................14
Viewing shredding results in the compressed files........................................................................15
3 Support and other resources......................................................................16
Contacting HP........................................................................................................................16
Subscription service............................................................................................................16
Documentation feedback....................................................................................................16
Related information.................................................................................................................16
HP websites......................................................................................................................17
Conventions for storage capacity values....................................................................................17
Typographic conventions.........................................................................................................17
A Volume Shredder GUI reference.................................................................19
Shred LDEVs wizard................................................................................................................19
Shred LDEVs window.........................................................................................................19
Confirm window................................................................................................................20
Edit Shredding Data Pattern window.........................................................................................22
Glossary....................................................................................................25
Index.........................................................................................................27
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