![]() In my opinion NetApp need to lift their game with their simulator. It still doesn’t leave me with a GUI or any instructions on taking advantage of the underlying power of the OnTap system. This 64 page manual covers setting up the disks and joining a cluster. The remaining pages are full of clear concise instructions that take you from loading the VM to provisioning storage through the Unisphere interface.Īfter digging around further and finding other people with similar issues on the OnTap simulator I found there is a second manual required, one that is not linked from the page where I downloaded the simulator from. The EMC VNX guide is 38 pages, of which 2 are about loading the VM in VMware Workstation (EMC doesn’t support it in ESX, though it is well known to work). There are no instructions on how to access or configure the simulator once you get past this point, and the VM is rebooting constantly. This is followed by a page and a half of information on assigning a unique system ID. The NetApp procedure runs to 32 pages of which the first 26 are dedicated to setting up the VM in VMware Workstation/Player or ESX. Both came with detailed instructions on how to get them started, though the actual experience was vastly simpler for the VNX simulator over the OnTap simulator. I recently downloaded both the EMC VNX simulator and the NetApp OnTap 8 simulator for a proof of concept lab. ![]()
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