topic 8.2P6 7-Mode simulator in Simulator Discussions

8.2P6 7-Mode simulator

lewisharman — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:17:56 GMT

Hey everyone, I am looking for an .ova download for ONTAP 8.2P6 7-Mode simulator. Does anyone know if it is still possible to get hold of this as the NetApp downloads page now only has 8.3 and up? Cheers, Lewis

Re: 8.2P6 7-Mode simulator

rorzmcgauze — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:37:44 GMT

Come on NetApp Sim team. These are need for test purposes and transition planning. Since they are still supported they should be available. Please put the links back.

Re: 8.2P6 7-Mode simulator

LEON_IC_UVA — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 13:05:06 GMT

Hi all,

Enjoy (for as long as it lasts):

http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/download/tools/simulator/ontap/8.2.1/vsim_netapp-7m.tgz
http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/download/tools/simulator/ontap/8.1.4/vsim_netapp-7m.tgz

If you want other versions, adjust the link.

Regards

Re: 8.2P6 7-Mode simulator

ericmb — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 15:12:35 GMT

Agree, we have the same problem. migrating to cDOt and need these for testing.

Re: 8.2P6 7-Mode simulator

SeanHatfield — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 22:54:03 GMT

Those old versions are tgz archives. Once extracted you can convert them to ova files with ovftool:

ovftool --allowAllExtraConfig --extraConfig:monitor_control.pseudo_perfctr=TRUE --extraConfig:timeTracker.forceMonotonicTTAT=TRUE --extraConfig:monitor_control.disable_tsc_offsetting=TRUE --extraConfig:monitor_control.disable_rdtscopt_bt=TRUE <path to>\DataONTAP.vmx DataONTAP.ova

8.3+ doesn't need all the extraConfig but older versions may panic without it.

Re: 8.2P6 7-Mode simulator

ericmb — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 07:21:50 GMT

Thank you very much for that info!

Eric

Re: 8.2P6 7-Mode simulator

peluso — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 19:15:09 GMT

Hi!

I may be late to the party but we did see this request & let the PM know people were looking for older versions and she had them added. Feel free to reach out when stuff like this happens -- either to me as a private message (which will ensure I see it) or continue to post in the Developer Network. We are a small community team but will always do our best to help.

Simulate ONTAP 8.2.2 has been added to Toolchest

http://mysupport.netapp.com/tools/download/ECMLP2538456DT.html?productID=61970

Re: 8.2P6 7-Mode simulator

rorzmcgauze — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 10:44:36 GMT

Thanks thats just what we needed.