topic Using the Sim without internet access: A trainee's plea for guidance. in Simulator Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Using-the-Sim-without-internet-access-A-trainee-s-plea-for-guidance/m-p/30776#M262 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Greetings!</P><P></P><P>I'm fairly new to DataONTAP, and while I've got the sim totally up and running on my desktop PC at home, I'm going to be traveling quite a bit soon, and want to run the sim "locally" on my laptop.</P><P></P><P>On my desktop, I have assigned IP's in the 192.168.x.x range to the sim, and I can access it just fine via OnCommand System Manager, and play around to my heart's content.</P><P></P><P>However, on my laptop, since I'll be traveling and my IP's are going to change/not be assigned or I may not have internet access, I'm wanting to be able to run the sim via VMPlayer, and still have the ability to manage it via OnCommand.</P><P></P><P>I tried assigning e0a-e0d IP addresses in the loopback range of 127.0.0.2 - 127.0.0.5, but when i try to run discovery via OnCommand, I am besieged with failure.</P><P></P><P>Can anyone suggest a way to make this work so that, for example, I can be on a train/plane/in the middle of nowhere and still be able to use OnCommand to manage and manipulate DataONTAP sim in VMPlayer?</P><P></P><P>Your guidance would be greatly appreciated.</P><P></P><P></P><P>~Chuck</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:33:23 GMT N2V_CHUCK 2025-06-05T06:33:23Z Using the Sim without internet access: A trainee's plea for guidance. https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Using-the-Sim-without-internet-access-A-trainee-s-plea-for-guidance/m-p/30776#M262 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Greetings!</P><P></P><P>I'm fairly new to DataONTAP, and while I've got the sim totally up and running on my desktop PC at home, I'm going to be traveling quite a bit soon, and want to run the sim "locally" on my laptop.</P><P></P><P>On my desktop, I have assigned IP's in the 192.168.x.x range to the sim, and I can access it just fine via OnCommand System Manager, and play around to my heart's content.</P><P></P><P>However, on my laptop, since I'll be traveling and my IP's are going to change/not be assigned or I may not have internet access, I'm wanting to be able to run the sim via VMPlayer, and still have the ability to manage it via OnCommand.</P><P></P><P>I tried assigning e0a-e0d IP addresses in the loopback range of 127.0.0.2 - 127.0.0.5, but when i try to run discovery via OnCommand, I am besieged with failure.</P><P></P><P>Can anyone suggest a way to make this work so that, for example, I can be on a train/plane/in the middle of nowhere and still be able to use OnCommand to manage and manipulate DataONTAP sim in VMPlayer?</P><P></P><P>Your guidance would be greatly appreciated.</P><P></P><P></P><P>~Chuck</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:33:23 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Using-the-Sim-without-internet-access-A-trainee-s-plea-for-guidance/m-p/30776#M262 N2V_CHUCK 2025-06-05T06:33:23Z Re: Using the Sim without internet access: A trainee's plea for guidance. https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Using-the-Sim-without-internet-access-A-trainee-s-plea-for-guidance/m-p/30781#M263 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Addendum: Could the Microsoft Loopback Adapter work in this case perhaps? Does anyone have any experience with this?</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:00:20 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Using-the-Sim-without-internet-access-A-trainee-s-plea-for-guidance/m-p/30781#M263 N2V_CHUCK 2012-03-03T09:00:20Z Re: Using the Sim without internet access: A trainee's plea for guidance. https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Using-the-Sim-without-internet-access-A-trainee-s-plea-for-guidance/m-p/30785#M264 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm able to do this with VMworkstation and the VMs set to NAT node</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:38:04 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Using-the-Sim-without-internet-access-A-trainee-s-plea-for-guidance/m-p/30785#M264 stephen2 2012-03-05T21:38:04Z