The NetApp
Clustered ONTAP (CDOT) 8.2 Simulator - as first downloaded - has two virtual shelves
of 14 x 1GB disks. With 3 disks taken for the dedicated Clustered ONTAP root aggregate,
which leaves 25 for a data aggregate, of which two of those disks will be
parity disks, giving a maximum usable space of around 23GB. If you want to see
how it is possible to get close to 400GB usable space out of your CDOT 8.2 Simulator, read on!
Walkthrough - how
to get the most out of your CDOT 8.2 SIM, starting from the very start!
Part 1: Obtaining
the SIM
1: Download the CDOT 8.2 SIM from http://support.netapp.com > Downloads
> Product Evaluations > Data ONTAP Simulator > Simulator 8.x > 8.2
Clustered-ONTAP for VMware Workstation
2: Unpack the downloaded vsim_netapp-cm.tgz
3: Open the DataONTAP.vmx file with VMware Workstation
Part 2: First Boot
1: Boot the simulator
2: Press Ctrl-C for Boot Menu when prompted
3: Enter selection 4 ‘Clean configuration and initialize
all disks’ and answer ‘y’ to the two prompts
Part 3: Replacing
the 2x14x1 GB Virtual Disks with 4x14x9 GB!
1: After the wipe request from part 2, the SIM will load
to ‘Do you want to create a new cluster ...’ press Ctrl-C to escape the setup
script
2: The login is ‘admin’ with no password
3: Run through the following commands/prompts>
security login unlock -username
diag
security login password
-username diag
Please enter a new password: XXXXXXXX
Please enter it again: XXXXXXXX
set -privilege advanced
Do you want to continue? y
systemshell local
login: diag
Password: XXXXXXXX
setenv PATH
"${PATH}:/usr/sbin"
echo $PATH
cd /sim/dev/,disks
ls
sudo rm v0*
sudo rm v1*
sudo rm ,reservations
cd /sim/dev
vsim_makedisks -h
sudo vsim_makedisks -n 14 -t 36
-a 0
sudo vsim_makedisks -n 14 -t 36
-a 1
sudo vsim_makedisks -n 14 -t 36
-a 2
sudo vsim_makedisks -n 14 -t 36
-a 3
ls ,disks/
exit
system node halt local
Warning: Are you sure you want to halt the
node? y
Note: The SIM comes
with 2 virtual shelves of 14 x Type 23 (1GB) disks. Here we’re simply trashing
those 2 shelves and adding 4 shelves (which is as many as you can add) of 14 x Type
36 (~9GB) disks.
Part 4: Second Wipe
1: Power off the SIM
2: Edit the properties of the Virtual Machine to make
Hard Disk 4, 550 GB in size
Image: Expanding
VMware Workstation VMDK
3: Power on the SIM
4: Press Ctrl-C for Boot Menu when prompted
5: Enter selection 5 ‘Maintenance mode boot’
6: Assign 3 disks for the Clustered ONTAP dedicated root
aggregate, and halt
disk assign v4.16 v4.17 v4.18
disk show
halt
7: Power-cycle the SIM
8: Press Ctrl-C for Boot Menu when prompted
9: Enter selection 4 ‘Clean configuration and initialize
all disks’ and answer ‘y’ to the two prompts
Part 5: Cluster
Setup and Aggregate Setup
1: After the wipe request from part 2, the SIM will load
to ‘Do you want to create a new cluster ...’ follow the prompts to create your
cluster
Note: SIM Base
License Key is SMKQROWJNQYQSDAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (that’s 14 A’s!)
2: Login to the cluster
3: Run through the following commands/prompts to create
the largest CDOT 8.2 SIM aggregate possible!
storage disk assign -all true
-node lab-01
system node run -node lab-01 options
disk.maint_center.spares_check off
storage aggregate create
-aggregate a_lab01_01 -diskcount 53 -nodes lab-01 -maxraidsize 28
And the output to
show the nearly 400GB lab simulator aggregate!
lab::> storage
aggregate show
(storage aggregate show)
Aggregate Size Available Used% State
---------
-------- --------- ----- ------
a_lab01_01 387.6GB 387.6GB 0% online
aggr0 7.91GB
379.0MB 95% online
