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9.3 Simulator says no disks found when booting on VMware Workstation Player 14

Gordon_Shumway — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:59:28 GMT

Just got out of 9.x class and I am trying to install the Simulator on my laptop (Win10/16GB/Quad Core/SSD). When importing either the 9.2 or 9.3 OVA "netapp" flavor of OVA file the simulator initially boots but fails complaining "WARNING: there do not appear to be any disks attached to the system." Then it reboots and tries again and keeps failing in an endless reboot. I am familiar with VirtualBox but clueless with WS Player. The Simulator docs want you to tinker with the network connection but there is no mention of disk stuff. Is there something I have to do to pre-stage the VMware WS environment to import the OVA?

Re: 9.3 Simulator says no disks found when booting on VMware Workstation Player 14

NAYABSK — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 15:20:57 GMT

Hi.

Thank you for reahcing NetApp Community.

Did you try ctrl+C and chose option 4 to wipeout the disks and start it fresh ?

Refer to the Simulator Installation Guide attached.

Thanks,

Nayab