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ONTAP Simulator 9.2 running on VirtualBox or RedHat Enterprise Virtualization

ClearSharkian1 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:09:54 GMT

Good day everyone!

A customer of mine is runnning VirtualBox and/or RedHat Enterprise Virtualization on his Mac and was wondering if there was any way to run the ONTAP 9.3 Simulator in either of those environments. I know right on the Simulator download site that is only runs in a VMware environment but thought I would do my due dilligence and check here just in case.

Any thoughts/experiences would be greatly appreciated folks.

Thank you in advance.

Rob

Re: ONTAP Simulator 9.2 running on VirtualBox or RedHat Enterprise Virtualization

AlexDawson — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 02:36:44 GMT

RHEV only seems to support Windows and Linux VMs, which ONTAP is not (it is close to FreeBSD), so I'm pretty confident it won't work.

Re: ONTAP Simulator 9.2 running on VirtualBox or RedHat Enterprise Virtualization

asulliva — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:32:22 GMT

Hello Rob,

It is possible to run the Simulator using Oracle's VirtualBox. I don't think the Simulator is supported, but if it is this would certainly fall into the "unsupported" category : )

If you are a partner with access to FieldPortal, please send me an email (community username at netapp.com), I can send you a document to help.

Andrew