topic ONTAP 9.2 Simulator in Simulator Discussions

ONTAP 9.2 Simulator

MARCUSBURROWS — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:21:31 GMT

Hi all

has anyone come across a problem with the 9.2 simulator on ESX where you enter maintenance mode and the prompt doesn't return a response? ie you can carry on typing as much as you like but the console doesn't actually accept the command.

I am trying to assign disks so this is a show-stopper.

Thank you for any help

Marcus

Re: ONTAP 9.2 Simulator

SeanHatfield — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 17:02:38 GMT

Thats an issue with the vidconsole in that version of the simulator. Maintenance mode console output is going to the comconsole. Two possible workarounds would be configuring/using the comconsole, or booting into ontap and doing the simulator disk management steps from the node shell & systemshell.

Re: ONTAP 9.2 Simulator

MARCUSBURROWS — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 13:08:59 GMT

Thank you very much Sean. I have also received some instructions regarding that, so if anyone else has similar issues:

1) Connect another VM to the simulator using a serial over network connection. See: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2004954

2) Change the VLOADER setting as Sean has said: setenv console comconsole

3) Connect from the other VM using Putty (or similar) on a COM port. Default baud rate is 9600.

Regards

Marcus