NetApp DataONTAP Simulator

I am attending a 5-days training class this week about a NetApp course: DataONTAP 7.3 Fundamentals. I have never had hands-on on any storgae system before. The first good thing I have learned so for is there is a Simulator which allows us to practise many things about the storage system through NetApp DataONTAP.

You can download the Simulator from NetApp NOW site after login. To install this Simulator, you need Linux and the Simulator package itself. There is a step by step guide from NetApp , which describes how to install this Simulator on VMWare and Ubuntn Linux. However more than often like any other guides, it is slightly out-dated (dated Jan, 2007 so not a surprise), but still I followed it and got my simulator set up with a few intelligent guess.

My simulation environment is Windows XP, VMWare Server 2.0, Ubuntn Linux 9.04 Desktop edition. Here is the screenshot from the sysconfig -r command:

mysim> sysconfig -r
Aggregate aggr1 (online, raid_dp) (zoned checksums)
  Plex /aggr1/plex0 (online, normal, active)
    RAID group /aggr1/plex0/rg0 (normal)

      RAID Disk Device  HA  SHELF BAY CHAN Pool Type  RPM  Used (MB/blks)    Phys (MB/blks)
      --------- ------  ------------- ---- ---- ---- ----- --------------    --------------
      dparity   v4.19   v4    1   3   FC:B   -  FCAL  N/A  70/144384         77/158848
      parity    v4.20   v4    1   4   FC:B   -  FCAL  N/A  70/144384         77/158848
      data      v4.21   v4    1   5   FC:B   -  FCAL  N/A  70/144384         77/158848

Aggregate aggr0 (online, raid0) (zoned checksums)
  Plex /aggr0/plex0 (online, normal, active)
    RAID group /aggr0/plex0/rg0 (normal)

      RAID Disk Device  HA  SHELF BAY CHAN Pool Type  RPM  Used (MB/blks)    Phys (MB/blks)
      --------- ------  ------------- ---- ---- ---- ----- --------------    --------------
      data      v4.16   v4    1   0   FC:B   -  FCAL  N/A  120/246784        127/261248
      data      v4.17   v4    1   1   FC:B   -  FCAL  N/A  120/246784        127/261248
      data      v4.18   v4    1   2   FC:B   -  FCAL  N/A  120/246784        127/261248


Spare disks

RAID Disk       Device  HA  SHELF BAY CHAN Pool Type  RPM  Used (MB/blks)    Phys (MB/blks)
---------       ------  ------------- ---- ---- ---- ----- --------------    --------------
Spare disks for zoned checksum traditional volumes or aggregates only
spare           v4.22   v4    1   6   FC:B   -  FCAL  N/A  70/144384         77/158848
spare           v4.24   v4    1   8   FC:B   -  FCAL  N/A  70/144384         77/158848
spare           v4.25   v4    1   9   FC:B   -  FCAL  N/A  70/144384         77/158848
spare           v4.26   v4    1   10  FC:B   -  FCAL  N/A  70/144384         77/158848

I will see if I can get an Oracle database use the storage in the Simulator