EMC VNX 5500 Decommission Procedure

Hello Selva_swa,

If you have partner access then you can use the following link to access the steps for decommissioning a VNX system. https://dell.to/3d4F89Y

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Hello Dell, 

I have a few ENC VNX5500 model which needs to decommissioned physically. 

I would like to follow below order to decommission them, 

1. All drives needs to be sanitized/erased

2. Delete the data mover 

3. Delete the storage pool 

4. Shutdown the SPA,SPB and Storage Sp , etc...

5. dismantle the hardware physically

Please let me know is there any technical document for the same or suggestion for the same. 

Please drop a mail to me with those steps if please.

I wasn’t able to find anything with all of these steps. https://dell.to/3ccY8TX has some steps and guides for parts of what you want to do.