You can find ONTAP 9.6 Netapp Simulator using the following link: https://netappnotesark.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html

Once you download the OVA, import the OVA into the VMWare

In this section we will configure the physical and software component of the Netapp. Well physical…as most as we can, given that it is virtualized :D Firstly, following our topology from the Vyos, we need 7 network adapters connected to the different networks.

Make sure you have the following for the NetApp Virtual Machine:

Now you can start the machine.

After you have started the machine, you will have a menu in which you have to press ctrl + c, to enter into the boot menu settings:

That, will allow you to enter into a menu with 9 options, choose option 4 to perform a clean configuration and press enter: Of course, it will ask you if you are sure to zero the disks and perform a clean install:

After you press enter on the second “yes” it will restart the machine and it will allow us to continue with the configuraiton: Once it boots again, you can see that it is wiping all the data from the disks:

After the wiping of data, it will ask us to configure the network. Now, according our topology, we have used network: e0c as the managed network so:

• Management interface port: e0c
• Management interface IP: 172.23.1.12
• Management interface netmask: 255.255.255.0
• Management interface default gateway: 172.23.1.254 (the router's IP)

Now, it will ask us if we will continue the installation either:

1. Browser mode
2. Command line mode

You can choose whichever in production, I will continue with the Command line, but here is how it looks the Browser mode: P.S. the browser mode is not supported by the simulator.

The command line mode, relies on input from the user. It is less intuitive but I like it more. Also it is the only possibility for the simulator as I am too poor to buy the real thing :D Either way, there are only few questions which the installation wizard needs:

1. Create or Join a cluster: Create
2. Is this a Single-Node Cluster: No
3. Do you accept the defaults: Yes
4. Password for the administrator: Flatbox1
5. Cluster name: cluster1
6. Management network: e0c (not e0d)
7. Cluster IP Address: 172.23.1.11
8. Cluster Netmask: 255.255.255.0
9. License key: Press enter, we will continue it after
10. DNS Name: flackbox.lab
11. DNS IP: 172.23.4.1 (Windows Client which we will configure)
12. Controller Location: Flackbox-lab (we can add anything here)

Below you can see a summary:

There are more, but it didn't fit on the screen :) We can login with: Username: admin Password: Flatbox1

Now, to joing a NetApp simulator to our previously created cluster, we need to do a little change.

That change is to change the serial number, because if we don't when it will try to join, it will try to check the serial and if it sees two machines with the same serial it will fail. So, at the begining of the booting, don't press enter, just press any other buttom and follow the instructions:

Once that we changed the serial the serial we can continue as before with the booting:

To join a cluster, we have to again interupt the booting menu (the 2nd one, not the 1st one as the previous section) and again choose option 4) (Clean installation) Repeat the steps from the creation of the clustert with the exception of the step for: “Create or Join” This time choose JOIN:

After that, we will be asked to enter the private Cluster network IP from node 1. So go to Node 1 and issue the following command to obtain the IP:

So enter this IP in the configuration on the 2nd node:

That should work and we should be given the login prompt:

Repeat the steps from the previous section for the disk addition, reboot and assigning of the disks, like the 1st node.