topic Simulator fails after changing serial and sysid under vSphere 5.5 in Simulator Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Simulator-fails-after-changing-serial-and-sysid-under-vSphere-5-5/m-p/39954#M341 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I installed a 8.1.3 7-mode simulator, and cloned it.&nbsp; I tried to change the Serial and SysId, both of those worked fine, but when I try to go into maintenance mode and/or initialize the discs, I get the following:</P><P><IMG src="http://community.netapp.com/legacyfs/online/23557_dotsim.png" width="676" /></P><P>Does anyone have any ideas?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:52:05 GMT papadopoulosa 2025-06-05T05:52:05Z Simulator fails after changing serial and sysid under vSphere 5.5 https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Simulator-fails-after-changing-serial-and-sysid-under-vSphere-5-5/m-p/39954#M341 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I installed a 8.1.3 7-mode simulator, and cloned it.&nbsp; I tried to change the Serial and SysId, both of those worked fine, but when I try to go into maintenance mode and/or initialize the discs, I get the following:</P><P><IMG src="http://community.netapp.com/legacyfs/online/23557_dotsim.png" width="676" /></P><P>Does anyone have any ideas?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:52:05 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Simulator-fails-after-changing-serial-and-sysid-under-vSphere-5-5/m-p/39954#M341 papadopoulosa 2025-06-05T05:52:05Z Re: Simulator fails after changing serial and sysid under vSphere 5.5 https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Simulator-fails-after-changing-serial-and-sysid-under-vSphere-5-5/m-p/39959#M342 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi papadopoulosa:</P><P></P><P>maybe u change system-id make ontap can't boot success , u cant ctrl+c , enter mainteance mode boot , change original system-id and halt (reboot) , should be boot !</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 24 Oct 2013 06:08:12 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Simulator-fails-after-changing-serial-and-sysid-under-vSphere-5-5/m-p/39959#M342 DUKEYEN_STI 2013-10-24T06:08:12Z