Performing A Cryptographic Erase On An NVMe PCIe SSD In Slot Card
Does my controller
support this feature? See Supported Features.
NOTE: After you hot
plug an NVMe PCIe SSD, the NVMe PCIe SSD may take several seconds
to be displayed on Storage Management.
CAUTION: Cryptographic
Erase permanently erases all data present on the disk.
Performing
a Cryptographic Erase on an NVMe PCIe SSD overwrites all blocks and
results in permanent loss of all data on the NVMe PCIe SSD. During
Cryptographic Erase, the host is unable to access the NVMe PCIe SSD.The following error messages will be displayed based on the actions performed while performing Crytographic erase
NOTE: The error messages
will not be displayed in CLI mode.
- If drive is mounted
When you perform the 'Cryptographic Erase' operation, any data on the disk will be lost permanently. This device is cusrrently mounted(/mnt/temp) and may still be in use. We recomment un-assigning them before continuing. Are you sure you want to continue?
NOTE: The mount
path/drive letters is displayed in () brackets, in this case it is
(/mnt/temp).
- If any Raw IO in progress
When you perform the 'Cryptographic Erase' operation, any data on the disk will be lost permanently.This device may still be in use. We recommend that you stop all applications accessing the device before continuing. Areyou sure you want to continue?
NOTE: If the system reboots
or experiences a power loss during a Cryptographic Erase, the operation
is canceled. You must reboot the system and restart the operation.
NOTE: On systems
running the VMware vSphere (ESXi) operating system, Storage Management
performs only the Cryptographic Erase task and does not report
the status of the task. If the Cryptographic Erase task does
not function as expected for some NVMe devices, the status is not
reported or displayed on Server Administrator.
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