- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Getting started
- System concepts
- Storage environment
- Virtual storage
- Linear storage
- Disk groups
- RAID levels
- ADAPT
- Disk group utilities
- SSDs
- Spares
- Pools
- Changing pool settings
- Volumes and volume groups
- Volume cache options
- Overcommitting volumes
- About automated tiered storage
- Initiators, hosts, and host groups
- CHAP
- Host ports
- Attaching volumes to hosts
- Operating with a single controller
- Snapshots
- Copying volumes or snapshots
- Reconstruction
- Quick rebuild
- Updating firmware
- Managed logs
- LDAP
- DNS settings
- Peer connections
- Replication
- Full disk encryption
- Rescanning disks
- Clearing disk metadata
- Data protection during failover to a single controller
- SupportAssist
- About APEX AIOps Infrastructure Observability
- Event history
- Audit logs
- System metrics
- Dashboard
- Provisioning
- Working with volumes
- Volumes table
- Data protection table
- Creating volumes
- Modifying volumes
- Deleting volumes and snapshots
- Attaching volumes to hosts
- Detaching volumes from hosts
- Expanding volumes
- Rolling back virtual volumes
- Creating snapshots
- Resetting snapshots
- Copying volumes or snapshots
- Aborting a volume copy
- Add data protection
- Creating a replication set
- Modifying a replication set
- Deleting a replication set
- Initiating or scheduling a replication
- Suspending a replication
- Aborting a replication set
- Resuming a replication
- Managing replication schedules
- Working with hosts
- Working with volumes
- Settings
- Maintenance
- Other management interfaces
- Administering a log-collection system
- Settings changed by restoring defaults
- System configuration limits
- Best practices
- Glossary of terms
Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Administrator's Guide
Repurposing secured disks
Click Repurpose Secured Disks to repurpose a disk that is no longer part of a disk group.
Repurposing a disk resets the encryption key on the disk, effectively deleting all data on the disk. After a disk is repurposed in a secured system, the disk is secured using the system lock key ID and the new encryption key on the disk, making the disk usable to the system.
Repurposing a disk in an unsecured system removes all associated lock keys and makes that disk available to any system.
This action is also available via Maintenance > Hardware. Once you have selected the secured disks from the graphic view, select Repurpose Secured Disks from the Related Health Actions dropdown and follow on-screen instructions.
CAUTION:Repurposing a disk changes the encryption key on the disk and effectively deletes all data on the disk. Repurpose a disk only if you no longer need the data on the disk.
The Repurpose Secured Disks action is not permitted when the system is in the secured, locked state
For more information about using FDE, see Full disk encryption.
Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
Please select whether the article was helpful or not.
Comments cannot contain these special characters: <>()\