Time travel has always been a fascinating concept in our society. Think of the possibilities with the ability to move forward or backwards in time. There even is the idea of an alternate universe. The concept of time travel is so huge that we have several books, TV shows, and movies based on it. If only we […]
NetApp Simulator Cluster Mode Getting Started Part 3
Preparing the DataONTAP 2nd Simulator Node Upload the 2nd node simulator files to an existing or create a new datastore. Register the simulator VM (right click .vmx file and register VM). Right click and select edit setting. Under the Virtual Hardware tab, add a new Serial Port device and click add. Change the Serial Port output […]
NetApp Simulator Cluster Mode Getting Started Part 2
The first post in this series discussed how to deploy the NetApp Simulator in your vSphere environment. Now we will move forward with the configuration of the first node & cluster. Booting the DataONTAP Simulator 1st Node Open the simulator vSphere client console, press Ctrl-C for the Boot Menu when displayed on the screen. Once the […]
NetApp Simulator Cluster Mode Getting Started Part 1
Simulators can be very useful tools to learn most of a products features. They can also serve as test platforms for updates, scripts, migrations, etc without the fear of affecting your production environment and causing a resume generating event. NetApp simulates its Data ONTAP software allowing for support for a majority of its functionality within […]