Hello jtejada.ralco, The best way to preserve the firmware on the drives is to reinitialize the drives in the system that they came in.  If you are really needing to sanitize the drives first, then reuse them in a EMC system then you would need to have a support contract on your systems so that we can go through the data eraser process.  If you do the data erasure you will need to purchase new vault drives as once they are wiped you can only get them reimiaged from EMC with a active support contract.
Hi all, I have some VPLEX, VNX systems and KTN-STL3 shelves we want to reuse sanitizing firstly drives. We sanitize common drives with Killdisk software under NIST800-88 regulation but I have seen we have to take care with EMC drives wich firmware could be cleared on this process and have to be reflashed to work properly with EMC systems. Please I would need to know how we can sanitize EMC drives without losing EMC firmware or if there is a way to reflash them. Thank you in advance.
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