topic Re: ONTAP simulator on ANTSLE box? in Simulator Discussions

ONTAP simulator on ANTSLE box?

Nick_Elliott — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:55:43 GMT

Has anyone attempted to run any version of the ONTAP simulator on an ANTSLE box?

Looks like it would be a great lab box if it works. They do have their own hypervisor. They claim they can pull in vmdk's but I think anyone who has tried to convert the simulator to hyper-v knows that doesn't mean it will work.

Re: ONTAP simulator on ANTSLE box?

AlexDawson — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 03:34:54 GMT

It could be a bit tricky due to the advanced networking and disk configuration for the VSIM - if it's going to fail on anything, it would be that - I personally run an ONTAP sim on an Intel NUC7i5BNH running VMWare. Very easy setup.

Re: ONTAP simulator on ANTSLE box?

Nick_Elliott — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 03:45:16 GMT

Thanks!

I thought about the Intel nuc but thought it wouldn't be powerful enough. I had alot of problems in the past with a 5 year old AMD computer turned esxi server. The hosts we're resource contrained all the time. I thought I would need to go to something with a good xeon processor. I'll give the nuc a try.

Re: ONTAP simulator on ANTSLE box?

SeanHatfield — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 23:47:08 GMT

Antsle is built on KVM. I've tried a few times to bring it up on KVM without success.

I have had plenty of success running them on assorted intel NUCs. Even i3 NUCs will work given sufficient ram and SSD/NVME.