Reference Guide

Re-purpose a drive in an appliance with encryption

enabled

About this task

A self-encrypting drive (SED) is locked when an appliance is initialized or when it is inserted into an already initialized appliance.

The drive cannot be used in another system without first being unlocked. The locked drive becomes unusable when it is inserted

into a different appliance and its encryption status appears as Foreign in the new appliance. The drive can be re-purposed for

the new appliance, however, all the existing data on the drive will be lost.

To re-purpose a drive having an encryption status of Foreign on an appliance, do the following:

Steps

1. Record the PSID (Physical Security ID) that is located on the label on the back of the drive. The PSID must be provided as

part of the re-purposing process.

2. In PowerStore Manager, click Hardware, select the appliance, and select the Hardware card.

3. Select the drive to re-purpose.

The Encryption Status for the drive should appear as Foreign.

4. Click Repurpose Drive.

The Repurpose Drive slide out appears.

5. Type the PSID of the drive and click Apply.

Results

The drive is re-purposed in the appliance as a new drive and its encryption status changes to Encrypted when the re-purpose

process completes.

Replacing a base enclosure and nodes from a system

with encryption enabled

A service engagement is required to replace a base enclosure and nodes from an appliance with encryption enabled.

Resetting an appliance to factory settings

A service script, svc_factory_reset, returns a single appliance cluster back to its factory-delivered state, deleting all user

data and persistent configurations.

For multi appliance clusters, svc_factory_reset cannot be run on the secondary appliances. The service script

svc_remove_appliance must be run instead. This script returns a secondary appliance to its factory-delivered state,

deleting all user data and persistent configurations. When only the primary appliance remains in the cluster, you can run

svc_factory_reset to reset that appliance.

NOTE: It is recommended that these scripts be run by only a qualified service provider.

For more information about these scripts, refer to the PowerStore Service Scripts Guide.

Data security settings