The Flackbox blog has an updated ‘How to Build a NetApp ONTAP 9 Lab’ PDF guide which covers the latest version of ONTAP’
- Download Simulator (Simulate ONTAP 8.2 for VMware ESX – 7Mode)
- http://support.netapp.com/NOW/download/tools/simulator/ontap/8.X/
- Unzip the VM along with license file (VSIM Licenses: 8.2 licenses 7-Mode)
- Upload the VM to the Datastore
- Register VM to Inventory
- Power ON
- Configuration
Press Ctrl + C to enter Boot Menu
Select Option 4 – Clean Configuration and initialize all disks
For Zero disks, reset config and install a new file system? : Yes
It will confirm with following message
This will erase all the data on disks are you sure ? : Yes
It will reboot the Virtual Machine
Specify the host name
Select if you want to enable Ipv6 :- N is default
Configure Interface Groups if you require: Default is No
In below sections you will need to configure IP Address of Ethernet Interface. By default there are 4 NICs to be Management Connectivity and 2 for Cluster
Specify the new password for the root account
I rebooted however it is not mandatory. Filer should be accessible
Next Steps include
Installing ONTAP Systems Manager software to access the NetApp SAN
Open it from Start –> All Program
Click Add to add storage systems
Click Login which will initiate connection to Storage System
In Next post I will include following
- Disk Assignment
- iSCSI Configuration
- Volume / LUN Creation
- LUN Mapping to Initiator Groups
- Snap Mirror Relationship
- SRM specific configuration
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