Wiping target disks

You can permanently wipe disks on selected Bare Metal targets, to comply with specific company policies and industry regulations.

Run the Wipe Disk on Bare Metal Targets task (ID 300), to perform secure disk wiping on Bare Metal targets that have completed a PXE-boot and are registered to the IBM BigFix server through the Bare Metal Extender Plug-in. The task destroys disk content on the target system. You can choose between 5 different destruction methods, which involve different levels of wiping of the master boot record and disk partitions. If you select the Arbitrary Overwrite method, you can also specify the number of overwrite rounds (number of passes) to be completed on the target disk.

WinPE is required for the disk wipe operation, and you can select it from the list of the available versions on the Bare Metal server. For the available WinPE versions to be displayed, you must have previously uploaded at least one MDT Bundle on the IBM BigFix server.

When you have made your choices, click Take Action to select the targets for this task. When the action completes, the disk wipe operation is queued for execution on the Bare Metal Server. To see the results of the actual disk wipe operation on the selected targets, check the Deployment Activity dashboard.

Note: The disk wipe operation could fail if some drivers are missing from the selected WinPE. In this case, the product attempts to inject the missing drivers and the target may be rebooted several times before the operation completes unsuccessfully.