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208 Physical Disks or Physical Devices
To locate this task in Storage Management:
1 Expand the Storage tree object to display the controller objects.
2 Expand a controller object.
3 Expand a Connector object.
4 Expand the enclosure or Backplane object.
5 Select the Physical Disks object.
6 Select Instant Encrypt Erase from the Available Tasks drop-down menu
of the physical disk you want to clear.
7 Click Execute .
Full Initialization
Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.
Use the Full Initialization task to erase an encrypted physical device. This
task is available for:
•Unconfigured SED drive
• Foreign configured encrypted drives
• Unconfigured and foreign SED drive even when an Encryption Key is not
present in the controller
CAUTION: Full Initialization permanently erases all data present on the disk.
To locate this task in Storage Management:
1 Expand the Storage tree object to display the controller objects.
2 Expand a controller object.
3 Expand a Connector object.
4 Expand the enclosure or Backplane object.
5 Select the Physical Devices object.
6 Select Full Initialization from the Available Tasks drop-down menu of
the physical device you want to clear.
7 Click Execute .