topic Compare vsim to ONTAP Edge in Simulator Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Compare-vsim-to-ONTAP-Edge/m-p/68475#M506 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Does anybody have details about comparing vsim to ONTAP Edge VSA ?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:37:46 GMT wallindustry 2025-06-05T05:37:46Z Compare vsim to ONTAP Edge https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Compare-vsim-to-ONTAP-Edge/m-p/68475#M506 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Does anybody have details about comparing vsim to ONTAP Edge VSA ?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:37:46 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Compare-vsim-to-ONTAP-Edge/m-p/68475#M506 wallindustry 2025-06-05T05:37:46Z Re: Compare vsim to ONTAP Edge https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Compare-vsim-to-ONTAP-Edge/m-p/68480#M507 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Edge is tuned for production workloads and has support.&nbsp; The vsim is optimized for test &amp; dev.</P><P></P><P>Some of that tuning includes:</P><P>Fixed sizing requirements (ram, vcpu count, etc)</P><P>Virtual SAS disk subsystem </P><P>RAID0 - leveraging physical raid controller for redundancy</P><P>VNVRAM - leveraging physical raid controller BBWC</P><P>no CPU halt on idle</P><P>ESX is a requirement, desktop hypervisors will not work.</P><P>and features that don't work in a VM are disabled (fc commands, etc)</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 18 Apr 2014 16:33:53 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Compare-vsim-to-ONTAP-Edge/m-p/68480#M507 shatfield 2014-04-18T16:33:53Z