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Install Simulate ONTAP by vSphere Web Client?

LiqunLi — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:40:03 GMT

The Simulate _ONTAP_8.3_Installation_andSetup_Guide.pdf shows the user how to install the simulator onto ESX server by vSphere Client, which runs on Windows only.

From Mac, there is only vSphere Web Client available. Any one has done the installation with vSphere Web Client?

Thanks.

Re: Install Simulate ONTAP by vSphere Web Client?

shatfield — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 04:20:28 GMT

The OVA works fine in the web client. The old vmx had lots of issues but the OVA is clean.

Re: Install Simulate ONTAP by vSphere Web Client?

LiqunLi — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 06:07:26 GMT

Thanks shatfield.

But the installation steps are different from the ones on its guide.

I found one way, called "Deploy OVF Template..."

I always got an error message on 2b step. Please check it out.

Please let me know which step goes wrong.

Re: Install Simulate ONTAP by vSphere Web Client?

shatfield — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 04:10:02 GMT

Not sure. Deployment in my lab was uneventful. My environment consists of VCSA 6, ESX6, and NFS datastores hosted on CDOT 8.3p2. I've seen references to that error message on older ESX versions but they don't appear to correlate. Any other info in the logs?

Re: Install Simulate ONTAP by vSphere Web Client?

LiqunLi — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 06:08:02 GMT

Thanks a lot.

Re: Install Simulate ONTAP by vSphere Web Client?

LiqunLi — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 17:41:36 GMT

the doc may need to be updated.