Unitek NetApp Training Blog

Your Netapp simulator is now operational. It has a name and an IP address and you should now be able to access it through Filerview.

If you go to your web browser and enter the IP address of your filer you should see something like this:

At this point, we’re interested in the entry “Documentation specific to the simulator”. Select that option. You will see the following options:

The one we’re going to look at first is license keys. Take a look.

Here are simulator specific license keys for most of the Netapp product line. Notice there are keys for ISCSI but not FCP. FCP is one of the few products the filer does not support, but there are plenty of others. Clustering is supported, snapmirror, multistore, flexclone, snaprestore, snapvault … pretty much everything is here.

Go to your console and type license:

Notice that licenses are already installed for CIFS, NFS, ISCSI and snaprestore.

Next let’s go back to “documentation specific to the simulator” options and then select “frequently asked questions.”

There is a lot of good information here as well as on the installation instructions screen.

We’re going to take a look at the first one, converting vol0 from RAID 0 to RAID 4, next time. If you go to your console, or better yet, a telnet session into your simulator and type “sysconfig –r” you should see something like this:

Notice that first group of disks in aggr0. The RAID type is RAID0. Ordinarily (unless you are using a vfiler) you would not see aggregates with a raid type of RAID zero. They should be RAID 4 or RAID DP. To help keep the image size of the simulator smaller, (there is no parity information) Netapp has made the aggregate that supports /vol/vol0 RAID type 0.

In the interests of making the simulator behave closer to a real hardware storage controller our next project will be making a boot volume on an aggregate with normal RAID support. Also, we will be replacing the 126 MB drives with 526 MB drives.