Hi,
I'm doing my first experiments with the simulator. I installed it in a VMware Workstation environment. But i got a problem after cleaning the disks and setting up the management interface.
I get only these message if i try to connect to the webinterface:
4082368-50-7 4082368507 SIMBOX 8.3.2RC1 -
What i have to do to connect to the webinterface?
Thanks and greetings
From the command line run cluster setup. Once cluster setup has been performed you should be able to manage it from the web interface.
Well I just got an announcement of 6.3.1 GA (as a acustomer) but every link is unauthorised..... (Except the survey - perhaps we could rate it on the communications experience?)
Announcing NetApp Synergy v6.3.1 General Availability (GA)
Try out the new version of Synergy today! https://synergy.netapp.com
Features and enhancements include:
Contact the NetApp Synergy Product Manager
We want NetApp Synergy to be your system design tool of choice. Let us know how we can make it better. As Product Manager for NetApp Synergy, I look forward to hearing from you on how we can make your job easier. Email Wayne Mueller, Synergy Product Manager.
Contact the NetApp Synergy Field Advisory Board (FAB) Lead
The Synergy FAB is looking for ways to make sure the field’s needs are being heard by the tool teams. Leverage the FAB to ensure that critical functionality and features are delivered in Synergy. Email Joshua Lee.
Visit the Synergy Community - Submit a Synergy Support Ticket - Rate Synergy 6 - Synergy 6 FAQ
Hi,
Is there a way to configure Advanced Disk Partioning in the latest simulator 8.3.2RC1 C-Mode, for practising ADP and also AFF deployments ?
I've removed all disks that come configured in the default install and created a few shelves of 500MB SSD's, however upon initialization (whether assigning the disks to the node or leaving them unassigned) the system won't create disk partitions. A message pops up at the initialization stage that 4 internal disks could not be found, advanced disk paritions will not be used.
The virtual host adapters and the connected vha disks in the simulator appear as external FC attached DS14 shelves to ONTAP. They don't pass the internal disk check. Even if you could get them partitioned it would likely panic the simulator. There are labs with ADP in LabOnDemand, but they are only accessible to partners. That would let you practice managing partition ownership, but you wouldn't have the console level access to do an init.
Thanks for your reply Sean, yeah we have access to LOD, however was looking for a bit more access. What about for initializing an AFF ?
Even in the LOD environment the disks do not present as SSD, so it wouldn't give you the AFF initialization simulation I think you are looking for. I've tried making a regular vsim with all SSDs, but it doesn't come up as flash optimized either. But thats definately going on my list of unsupported things to convince the simulator to do.
I downloaded 8.3.2 simulator and sucessfully created the first node, but when I tried to initialze the second node it fails with the following message:
PANIC: Can't find device with WWN 0x117715456. Rmeove '/sim/dev/,disks/,reservations' and restart.
I already changed the 2nd node sysid:
4. Change the Serial Number and System ID for this node:
VLOADER> setenv SYS_SERIAL_NUM 4034389-06-2
VLOADER> setenv bootarg.nvram.sysid 4034389062
5. Verify that the information was saved correctly:
VLOADER> printenv SYS_SERIAL_NUM VLOADER> printenv bootarg.nvram.sysid
Thank you Sean for take the time to answer my questions. I was abled to resolve this issue. As the disks are all having the same
UUID. I had to set the UUID for disk2, disk3 and disk4 for it to work.
I used the below command.
% VboxManage internalcommands sethduuid vsim-netapp-DOT8.3.1-cm-disk2.vmdk
This usually mean you didn't change the sysid on the very first boot. Once it's boot looped, you need to clear the reservations file.
Reboot, and CTRL-C to bring up the boot menu
******************************* * * * Press Ctrl-C for Boot Menu. * * * ******************************* ^CBoot Menu will be available.
From the bootmenu, enter the systemshell:
Please choose one of the following: (1) Normal Boot. (2) Boot without /etc/rc. (3) Change password. (4) Clean configuration and initialize all disks. (5) Maintenance mode boot. (6) Update flash from backup config. (7) Install new software first. (8) Reboot node. Selection (1-8)? systemshell Forking /bin/sh pid: 1062 #
From the systemshell, remove the reservations file
# rm /sim/dev/,disks/,reservations
Exit back to the boot menu:
# exit
And pick option 8 to reboot the simulator
Please choose one of the following: (1) Normal Boot. (2) Boot without /etc/rc. (3) Change password. (4) Clean configuration and initialize all disks. (5) Maintenance mode boot. (6) Update flash from backup config. (7) Install new software first. (8) Reboot node. Selection (1-8)? 8 Reboot now? (y or n): y
If you are prompted about a sysid mismatch during boot, pick Y.
If you had already assigned disks, go into maintenance mode and reassign them to the new sysid.
That should get it going.
Hello Community,
how I can list programatically the cifs shares by using C# (not Powershell)? Is it necessary to setup the fpolicy or something else?
Thanks and regards,
C. Schulze
Hello!
You'll want to use the NetApp Manageability SDK and the cifs-share-get-iter API. There are some code examples in C# that you can use as a starting point provided with the NMSDK download.
Hope that helps.
Andrew
Excellant it worked great.
Thank You
Hi guys,
Please let me know whether the Netapp simulator (8.3.2)/licenses added got any expiry period?
No. Its entirely possible to use time based demo keys in the simulator, but the keys published with the simulator do not expire.
Hi Community,
I enabled gpo support on my vfiler and created a filesystem security gpo but it don't work. I linked it to the ou where the netapp is located and did a gpo update via cmdline.
Show-applied results in:
Error: show failed: The gpolist is empty in "vFiler".
Is there any other thing to do to get the gpo working?
Thanks and regards,
C.Schulze
We have a use case where we want to be able to achive WORM storage (Snaplock Compliance) and also making sure that the data on the volume is encrypted in the filesystem. On top of that encryption, the requirement is to be able to change the encryption key at a pre-defined frequency and still achieve WORM storage for compliance.
This would mean to have a capability to re-encrypt with the new encryption key without changing the worm status of the file or still being compliant.
My question is can Snaplock compliance support this kind of use case, if yes then what storage solution is supported/recomended by NetApp to achieve this.
I can provide more details if anything is not clear in the questions.
If your plan is to re-encrypt the entire snaplock volume, then it would require a full overwrite. You are changing every block on disk. Snaplocks goal is to prevent the blocks on disk from being changed/deleted. These would seem to be incompatible requirements.
Another strategy in encryption is to encrypt the data with a master key. This master key is then encrypted using a user-known key or passphrase. When the user key is changed the master key is re-encrypted using the new user key and the remaining data is untouched. In this case, only the storage containing the encrypted master key needs to be modified so this may be more feasible.
Or you could let the storage controller do it:
http://www.netapp.com/us/products/storage-security-systems/netapp-storage-encryption.aspx
I installed and registered ONTap 8.2.3 7-mode sim on existing ESX 5.1 host. The sim folder/files are on an existing datastore on our SAN.
When I attempt to power on the sim, ESX reports the following error.
"An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM STNAS101A.
Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/539b2bd8-cefc30bd-f5cf-002219b1bf62/STNAS101A/DataONTAP-sim.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
The system cannot find the file specified
VMware ESX cannot find the virtual disk "/vmfs/volumes/539b2bd8-cefc30bd-f5cf-002219b1bf62/STNAS101A/DataONTAP-sim.vmdk". Verify the path is valid and try again. "
It appears that the VM is trying to access files on the local storage of the ESX host even though the disks show that they are on the SAN datastore.
Why? and how can I fix this?
Thanks,
I had the same issue with the esxi version "vsim_esx-7m.tgz" of the 7-Mode VSIM. The workaround I used was from the workstation version "vsim_netapp-7m.tgz".
Take the workstation version (I have Fusion on my Mac)
1) open and run the vmx file from the extracted "vsim_netapp-7m.tgz"
2) ctrl-c to break the boot to the loader
3) power off the VM
4) once powered off, file --> export to OVF
5) in ESXi, import the OVF
If you need more 7-Mode images, just repeat step 5... then follow the instructions as needed to set the serial number SYS_SERIAL_NUM, bootarg.init.nvram.sysid and option 4..
For the cDOT image, I had no issue with the esx image, only 7-Mode.