topic Looking for ONTAP Simulator with larger configuration limits to test FabricPool in ONTAP Discussions

Looking for ONTAP Simulator with larger configuration limits to test FabricPool

philipb — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:12:34 GMT

The simulator is limited to 56 drives. The SSD drive size limit is 500MB and the HDD is limited to 9GB. IPartner is trying to build a simulator that will allow testing FlashPools, SnapDiff and copy-to-cloud. I have real NetApp systems, just not all flash.

Re: Looking for ONTAP Simulator with larger configuration limits to test FabricPool

GidonMarcus — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 09:43:10 GMT

Why not try ONTAP select?

https://www.netapp.com/us/forms/tools/90-day-trial-of-ontap-select.aspx

Re: Looking for ONTAP Simulator with larger configuration limits to test FabricPool

paul_stejskal — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:37:39 GMT

Or even CVO would be perfect since you can do Fabricpool on that.

Re: Looking for ONTAP Simulator with larger configuration limits to test FabricPool

philipb — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:29:45 GMT

That is the best solution. Confirming my thoughts

Re: Looking for ONTAP Simulator with larger configuration limits to test FabricPool

philipb — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:30:32 GMT

Paul, that would involve paying for disks. Partner said Select is the best option.

Thanks

Phil

Re: Looking for ONTAP Simulator with larger configuration limits to test FabricPool

paul_stejskal — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:33:44 GMT

9.7 does allow for using a different aggregate, so you could set up a SSD aggr and HDD aggr in CVO. I'm not sure of cost, but I was just presenting an alternate option besides Select (if it didn't work for some reason).