8.1 c-mode simulator 1st time setup

nicholas4704 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:38:17 GMT

Hi All

I do have experience with 7-mode systems, and want to try new ONTAP 8.1 c-mode. I'm noobie with c-mode and c-mode simulator.

I think I lack simulator and c-mode setup knowledge. Unfortunately Simulator docs explain how to startup simulator itself, but send me to ONTAP docs to setup the system. Still don't know how to add more disks to Simulator for example.

I installed ESX version of 8.1 c-mode simulator - i.e. two virtual machines = two nodes. Created a new cluster and added the second node to the cluster. Will this config work with simulator and no HA pairs?

1. I don't see aggregates: disk show shows me aggr0 on both nodes, but aggr show returns an empty list.

MauCluster::> disk show

Usable Container

Disk Size Shelf Bay Type Position Aggregate Owner

---------------- ---------- ----- --- ----------- ---------- --------- --------

MauNode1:v4.16 1020MB - - aggregate dparity aggr0 MauNode1

MauNode1:v4.17 1020MB - - aggregate parity aggr0 MauNode1

MauNode1:v4.18 1020MB - - aggregate data aggr0 MauNode1

MauNode1:v4.19 1020MB - - spare present - MauNode1

----more disks skipped------

MauNode2:v5.16 1020MB - - aggregate dparity aggr0 MauNode2

MauNode2:v5.17 1020MB - - aggregate parity aggr0 MauNode2

MauNode2:v5.18 1020MB - - aggregate data aggr0 MauNode2

MauNode2:v5.19 1020MB - - spare present - MauNode2

----more disks skipped------

MauCluster::> aggr show

This table is currently empty.

2. I can't create aggregate, it returns "Error: command failed: Failed to load job for Create aggr1: Not initialized" from both System Manager and CLI.

Some more info:

MauCluster::> cluster show

Node Health Eligibility

--------------------- ------- ------------

MauNode1 true true

MauNode2 true true

2 entries were displayed.

MauCluster::> vserver show

Admin Root Name Name

Vserver Type State Volume Aggregate Service Mapping

----------- ------- --------- ---------- ---------- ------- -------

MauCluster admin - - - - -

MauCluster::> volume show

This table is currently empty.

What am I missing?

Thank you .

Nikolajs

Re: 8.1 c-mode simulator 1st time setup

SUNIL_PAL — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 05:21:04 GMT

can u tell me how you created another cluster and setup all this.

I have installed simulator and m stuck. It shows me a weird command prompt where i can't type the usual commands.

Re: 8.1 c-mode simulator 1st time setup

nicholas4704 — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:14:06 GMT

I had only two nodes.

There are no usual 7-mode commands there are Cluster-Mode commands. The simulator is shutdown right now so I can't tell you the command precisely. There is a command for creating a cluster and adding nodes to cluster. There should be one cluster with several nodes in it, not several clusters.

By the way try http/https to node address there is some kind of WEB interface.

Nick

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