Re: DOD wipe of disks in a virtual environment.

[Roberto José Etcheverry Romero <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>]

Would wiping from the guest partition work? I mean, for audit purposes. you
have the problem of having the data replicated AND being hosted by IBM i
means that it probably has been moving around the iASP so you could say
that there might be fragments here and there. The only real option would be
to nuke every last drive involved in either the hosting partition and the
iASP...
I guess you should research how they deal with this same issue on the intel
side of things, the cloud providers MUST have already gotten that request
from a customer...


On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:10 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Here's a question I just got from my customers.
>
> They have an i 7.2 host partition with a guest partition that contains all
> their programs and data. ALL NWSSTG for the single guest partition is in a
> PowerHA replicated iASP.
>
> They have data from hundreds of customers on their system. All data is in
> the guest partition with data in separate libraries and IFS directories for
> each customer.
>
> Here is the question:
>
> "A customer is demanding that we wipe to DoD spec all disks that contain
> their data when it is no longer needed. How do we do that?"
>
> How indeed?
>
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