That option is only available if the admin on the peered cluster has already granted vserver peering permission from the CLI.
See:
Otherwise type in the name of the peer SVM and it will initiate a peering request, which will need to be accepted on the other cluster.
Hi,
has anyone ever managed to give a 9.x Sim an AFF personality?
We want to "simulate" e.g. QoS settings (floors)... We're aware, that they won't "work", obviously, but it would be nice to be able to check the GUI and defaults of an AFF system (for training/course development).
Sebastian
NetApp Instructor
Hi there! I did some looking into this topic, and the internal documentation we have for the simulator, and it doesn't seem it is possible unfortunately. The only simulated SSDs are 500MB ones, and it looks like there is a variable beyond bootarg.init.flash_optimized that needs to be set which is locked out of the public builds of ONTAP.
I suggest providing feedback through the NetApp learning center that an AFF simulator may be useful, and they may be able to get it made available in a future release
https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/All-SSD-based-vsim/td-p/127047
Has anyone tried to set up the ONTAP simulator in xhyve on a mac? I don't know if this would be do-able. I have a minishift environment in xhyve and it would be interesting to see if I can get Trident to access NFS volumes from the ONTAP simulator.
Can also be done by using the GUI... Configuration ==> Cluster Peers ==> Select a cluster ==> Manage SVM Permissions
I was able to get the 9.5 simulator working in QEMU/KVM. I used virt-manager and GNS3 to manage it.
1. Convert vmdk's to qcow2 format using qemu-img
2. Move qcow2 files to a location where virt-manager can find them or browse to
3. Create your vm in virt-manager and select import disk option
4. Add disk one
5 Set memory to no less than 5 gb of ram and cpu to no less than 2
6. Name it and select customize
7. Add remaining qcow2 disks and make sure they are all ide
8. Add 3 more NICs that are e1000
9. Make sure you change from Spice to VNC
10. Boot VM
11. When "CTRL-C for boot menu", hit CTRL-C
12. In boot menu select option 4 (disk have been setup for vmware and we need to zero those out)
13. Follow all netapp procedures from there
This worked fine for me using both in virt-manager and GNS3 using Ontap 9.5.
Could you attach full VM definition for reference? Such instructions tend to become outdated as software changes, having actual working definition can always be applied even if defaults change.
So i just setup 9.5 simulator.
Just wondering does OCUM support the simulator ?
this option is no longer there in 9.5
any ideas how to recover cluster from a power outage
Hi,
Can we able to install Netapp simulator 7 mode on window laptop? My laptop is not supportting virtualization technology ( so i am not able to install VMware).
If we can have option to install simulator on windows OS directly, please let know the version and link to download ontap.
Thanks,
Jay.
Hi there!
Unfortunately not - seems a bit unusual though that your laptop doesn't support it. Check Intel's CPU ID program - you might need to enable vt-d / vt-x in the BIOS first - https://www.intel.com.au/content/www/au/en/support/articles/000005486/processors.html
Otherwise, maybe get a cheap older desktop (ideally with 16GB of RAM) to run it on. ONTAP is an operating system, not a program.
Hope this helps!
Hi Alex,
Thanks for the update. As adviced, i have checked my laptop with that link..(T4400) VT - not supported.
My laptop: DELL Inspiron 1545
Processor : Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4400 @2.20GHz, 2200Mhz.
..But my friend have the laptop ( Lenovo T740).. with linux OS and KVM ( windows 7 ) in it. Can I able to install simulator
on Windows KVM ? If yes, please get me the link of 7 mode.
Thanks
Jay
I installed Netapp Ontap 8.3.2 simulator on VMworkstation Player 12. The first node installed fine and I was able to creat a cluster. I then installed node 2 and attempted to join the cluster created by node one; however, it fails everytime.
I am not able to ping the intercluster IP addresses (the IP addresses on interface e0a and e0b) on node 2 from node 2 itself, but I can ping the intercluster interfaces on node 1 from node 1.
Can someone assist me in solving this issue? I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you in advance.
Regards,
Angel
Hello,
My customer asked if there is a 9.3P7 simulator.
Currently, only seeing 9.3P4.
Is there a way for them to get a 9.3P7 simulator so they can test on the OnTap release they are currently on?
Thank you,
Alegra Fernandez
GSAM USPS
919.476.8139
Hi,
I have a vSIM 9.3 setup and running on my test lab, recent check I found there is some issue with it as the screenshot as attached. This is actually the 2nd time it had happened. Not sure if this could be fixed instead of rebuilding them.
So its actually running on VMware ESXi 6.5.
Thanks
Thanks
I managed to get it working
You need to make sure after OCUM appliance boot up setup NTP and make sure it does a time sync.
Then you can add your clusters in.
It will not add them if the time is not correct
Make sure the e0a and e0b ports of both instances are connected to the same vmnet network, and when you configure the cluster interfaces on the first node, be sure to set the MTU to 1500. VMware's desktop hypervisors don't support jumbo frames.
You can give a try on this!
Make sure your vyos router is up.
Make sure your node1 is turned up. You can check by pinging to this specific ip address for node1 as well as router.
Hope this should work.
A few times now we've had power failures and the 9.5 vsim root vol gest trashed. Logging in, I see
***********************
** SYSTEM MESSAGES **
***********************
Internal error: Cannot open corrupt replicated database. Automatic recovery
attempt has failed or is disabled. Check the event logs for details. This node
is not fully operational. Contact support personnel for the root volume recovery
procedures.
(Or the other one about root vol corrupted.)
I've read the articles that say to use
VLOADER> unsetenv bootarg.init.boot_recovery
... but I get:
no such file or directory
Others have noted it's not there in 9.5 and possibly earlier versions.
Is there a way to recover in 9.5?
I also read there is a way to use fast persistent storage for NVRAM. We have NVME and SSD. Is there a how-to on that?
Thanks!
Peter
