topic Re: ETA on 8.3 Sim in Simulator Discussions

ETA on 8.3 Sim

cbested — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:24:46 GMT

Hi,

The subject of this thread covers what I'm looking for. If we don't have a date, can anyone at least advise if imminent or a long way off?

Re: ETA on 8.3 Sim

richard5 — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 23:12:18 GMT

I've just attempted an upgrade from a vsim running 8.2.2P1 to 8.3RC1 but it wasn't sucessfull. Tried zeroing all disks but seem to get disk errors after the zeroing completes.

Re: ETA on 8.3 Sim

shatfield — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 23:18:43 GMT

Something has changed in the fake nvram implementation. full/partner/panic works, just not fake. And it needs more ram than 8.2.x did. Hoping we'll get an official vsim soon. The upgrade is bumpy.

Re: ETA on 8.3 Sim

dirk_oogjen — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 15:52:11 GMT

We just got an email from NetApp in which they say they will try to have a 8.3 simulator ready by the end of this coming week (around friday Nov 21)

Re: ETA on 8.3 Sim

LEON_IC_UVA — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:25:51 GMT

Hi all,

Any news yet?

Re: ETA on 8.3 Sim

wesprather — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 19:54:46 GMT

BUMP

Re: ETA on 8.3 Sim

merick — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 13:24:22 GMT

Any updates here? The silence is deafening...

Re: ETA on 8.3 Sim

mdervovic — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 21:56:25 GMT

Someone at NetApp told me, that the ONTAP 8.3 Sim will probably come with the GA of the regular 8.3 DOT (hope not).

Re: ETA on 8.3 Sim

aborzenkov — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 00:43:40 GMT

In the past SIM versions available for download corresponded to GA releases, so it sounds plausible.

Re: ETA on 8.3 Sim

shatfield — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 08:07:39 GMT

Hope not. Its been rev'd for RCs in the past.

Re: ETA on 8.3 Sim

LEON_IC_UVA — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 09:35:41 GMT

Hi all,

Upgrade from 8.2.1 to 8.2.2P1 works without problems. 8.2.2P1 to 8.3RC1 fails. So c'mon NetApp give me my 8.3 sim.

Re: ETA on 8.3 Sim

VictorF — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 10:25:08 GMT

As we have already started talking about 8.3 feaures, it would really be good to have an 8.3 simulator to try and demo them...

Re: ETA on 8.3 Sim

merick — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:31:16 GMT

Where is this?! We REALLY need it to hit ASAP.

Re: ETA on 8.3 Sim

bobshouseofcards — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:55:05 GMT

Heard through the grapevine that an RC2 is being planned for 8.3 - which might also explain why no SIM yet...

Re: ETA on 8.3 Sim

melvery — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:07:39 GMT

It's available now

Re: ETA on 8.3 Sim

shatfield — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:49:42 GMT

Where?

Re: ETA on 8.3 Sim

richard5 — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:57:05 GMT

On the NetApp Support Site:

http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/download/tools/simulator/ontap/8.X/

Re: ETA on 8.3 Sim

shatfield — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:32:24 GMT

Found it. Stale cache.

Interesting updates. Structurally, vnvram is in full mode (persistent) with 256m, and the VM has 5gb allocated. Still VHA, single node, etc. Fake mode vnvram is what was killing vsim upgrades, and it was guarenteed to crater with less than 2gb. So the sizing seems much more reasonable. A single node footprint for a laptop install should still function on ~2gb with 64mb vnvram. But it will panic occassionally if you go too skinny or add more nodes.

Was hoping to see HA. Wonder if it still works...

Re: ETA on 8.3 Sim

merick — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:27:34 GMT

Has anyone gotten SSD partitioning to work? I added 14 of the type 35, 500MB SSD drives (the 100MB SSD won't work), but everytime I go to add them to an SSD cache pool the simulator will panic when it tries to initialize.

Re: ETA on 8.3 Sim

merick — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:49:29 GMT

This is what shows in the log:

Event :

raid.partition.disk.fail: Disk partition failed on Disk v3.29 Shelf - Bay - [NETAPP VD-500MB-SS-520 0042] S/N [07904612], error CR_NOT_SPARE_DISK, additional error info ().

Message Name :

raid.partition.disk.fail

Sequence Number :

2020

Description :

This message occurs when an attempt to partition a disk fails. The error and error_info fields indicate the reason why the attempt failed.

Action :

(NONE)