Amol,

isn't node wiped clean when you smartfail it from the cluster anyway ?

Hi,

Yes, the Smartfail process moves all data to other nodes in the cluster and ejects itself out of the cluster.

However, some customers require that the disk drives in the smartfailed node be erased so the data cannot be reconstructed (reverse engineered) in any way.

Thanks,

Amol,

Saying selective data I meant to say if they don't want to delete all the data but some of the data. But I don't need to do that. I confirmed and need to delete all the data using erasure service.

So, now I get that we need to SmartFail the node before using the Erasure service, how would one go about using the erasure service?

Thanks,

Gav

Amol,

But is there no other way to do this?

Thanks

Hello,

The (Sales) Account Representative can provide a quote for this fee based Disk Erasure Service. I would suggest contacting him.

Thanks,

Oh I am sure there's multiple methods and tools available today that let you erase hard drives. What  EMC Disk Erasure service gives you is a trained professional using EMC approved and tested tools that perform this activity.

Is there a command or procedure that can be run against a failed Isilon drive to ensure the data is erased off of the drive prior to sending it back to EMC? 

DBAN is a favorite.

They are just standard SATA drives. We put them in another computer and wipe them with DBAN.