NetApp vFiler DR with Data ONTAP Simulator Part 2: Configuration of the first simulator
This article is part of a series.
After you unzipped the file vsim_netapp-7m.tgz you have to open DataONTAP.vmx in VMware Fusion. The virtual network cards are configured as “Host-only” by default and only reachable from the host actually running the VM. To be able to communicate with the VMs in your normal network you should switch them to “Bridged”.
Start the VM and press Ctrl+C to get to the menu. Choose option 4 for a fresh configuration of the VM and (virtual) disk initialisation and confirm with “Y”. The VM restarts and after some time it aks for a hostname and IP settings. I only configured the first network device. All other questions can be answered with the default (“ENTER”). At the end you have to specifiy a password for the VM. Now you have your first filer up and running. To show the several steps it takes I made a short video:
Now you can log on to your simulator via SSH with e.g. putty (user root and the password you specified) and do some more configuration.
At first you should disable sending auto support to NetApp in case of errors. Next you can specify your timezone (in case you did not already in the initial setup earlier). If you enable TLS you are able to use the OnCommand System Manager later.
netapp01> options autosupport.support.enable off netapp01> timezone Europe/Berlin netapp01> options tls.enable on
No you can assign the virtual disks. This is necessary to be able to use them later:
netapp01> disk show -n DISK OWNER POOL SERIAL NUMBER HOME DR HOME ------------ ------------- ----- ------------- ------------- ------------- v4.16 Not Owned NONE 08523900 v4.17 Not Owned NONE 08523901 v4.18 Not Owned NONE 08523902 v4.19 Not Owned NONE 08523903 v4.20 Not Owned NONE 08523904 v4.21 Not Owned NONE 08523905 v4.22 Not Owned NONE 08523906 v4.24 Not Owned NONE 08523907 v4.25 Not Owned NONE 08523908 v4.26 Not Owned NONE 08523909 v4.27 Not Owned NONE 08523910 v4.28 Not Owned NONE 08523911 v4.29 Not Owned NONE 08523912 v4.32 Not Owned NONE 08523913 netapp01> disk assign all Mon Dec 14 22:31:18 CET [netapp01:diskown.changingOwner:info]: changing ownership for disk v4.16 (S/N 08523900) from unowned (ID 4294967295) to netapp01 (ID 4082368508) Mon Dec 14 22:31:18 CET [netapp01:diskown.changingOwner:info]: changing ownership for disk v4.17 (S/N 08523901) from unowned (ID 4294967295) to netapp01 (ID 4082368508) Mon Dec 14 22:31:18 CET [netapp01:diskown.changingOwner:info]: changing ownership for disk v4.18 (S/N 08523902) from unowned (ID 4294967295) to netapp01 (ID 4082368508) Mon Dec 14 22:31:18 CET [netapp01:diskown.changingOwner:info]: changing ownership for disk v4.19 (S/N 08523903) from unowned (ID 4294967295) to netapp01 (ID 4082368508) Mon Dec 14 22:31:18 CET [netapp01:diskown.changingOwner:info]: changing ownership for disk v4.20 (S/N 08523904) from unowned (ID 4294967295) to netapp01 (ID 4082368508) Mon Dec 14 22:31:18 CET [netapp01:diskown.changingOwner:info]: changing ownership for disk v4.21 (S/N 08523905) from unowned (ID 4294967295) to netapp01 (ID 4082368508) Mon Dec 14 22:31:18 CET [netapp01:diskown.changingOwner:info]: changing ownership for disk v4.22 (S/N 08523906) from unowned (ID 4294967295) to netapp01 (ID 4082368508) Mon Dec 14 22:31:18 CET [netapp01:diskown.changingOwner:info]: changing ownership for disk v4.24 (S/N 08523907) from unowned (ID 4294967295) to netapp01 (ID 4082368508) Mon Dec 14 22:31:18 CET [netapp01:diskown.changingOwner:info]: changing ownership for disk v4.25 (S/N 08523908) from unowned (ID 4294967295) to netapp01 (ID 4082368508) Mon Dec 14 22:31:18 CET [netapp01:diskown.changingOwner:info]: changing ownership for disk v4.26 (S/N 08523909) from unowned (ID 4294967295) to netapp01 (ID 4082368508) Mon Dec 14 22:31:18 CET [netapp01:diskown.changingOwner:info]: changing ownership for disk v4.27 (S/N 08523910) from unowned (ID 4294967295) to netapp01 (ID 4082368508) Mon Dec 14 22:31:18 CET [netapp01:diskown.changingOwner:info]: changing ownership for disk v4.28 (S/N 08523911) from unowned (ID 4294967295) to netapp01 (ID 4082368508) Mon Dec 14 22:31:18 CET [netapp01:diskown.changingOwner:info]: changing ownership for disk v4.29 (S/N 08523912) from unowned (ID 4294967295) to netapp01 (ID 4082368508) Mon Dec 14 22:31:18 CET [netapp01:diskown.changingOwner:info]: changing ownership for disk v4.32 (S/N 08523913) from unowned (ID 4294967295) to netapp01 (ID 4082368508)
The last step of this part is to add the licenses and activate some features. You can find the license codes in the file “VSIM Licenses: 8.2.3 licenses 7-Mode” from Part 1 under the section “Licenses for the non-ESX build”. Every single license code has to added with “license add” (in the example below the actual license code is changed to “XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX” and you only see how one license is added).
netapp01> license add XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX license add: successfully added license key "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX". netapp01> options licensed_feature.multistore.enable on netapp01> options snapmirror.enable on netapp01> options rsh.enable on
All articles of the series
Part 1: Download of the files needed
Part 2: Configuration of the first simulator
Part 3: Configuration of the second simulator
Part 4: Create an aggregate and volume
Part 5: DNS Configuration
Part 6: Create vFiler and configure vFiler DR
Part 7: Synchronous vFiler DR
Part 8: Create shares on vFiler
Part 9: Planned Failover
Part 10: Disaster Failover