topic Re: Anyone get 8.1 RC3 C-Mode working with 4 nics per sim under Win7+Workstation 8 ? in Simulator Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Anyone-get-8-1-RC3-C-Mode-working-with-4-nics-per-sim-under-Win7-Workstation-8/m-p/7421#M65 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><A __default_attr="5605" __jive_macro_name="user" class="jive_macro jive_macro_user" href="https://community.netapp.com/" target="_blank"></A>&nbsp; is this one that your team handles or should the question be asked in the <A href="https://forums.netapp.com/community/support" target="_blank">NetApp Support Community?</A></P><P>Mike</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:35:45 GMT crocker 2012-04-05T19:35:45Z Anyone get 8.1 RC3 C-Mode working with 4 nics per sim under Win7+Workstation 8 ? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Anyone-get-8-1-RC3-C-Mode-working-with-4-nics-per-sim-under-Win7-Workstation-8/m-p/7416#M64 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Been trying to get 8.1RC3 C-mode setup in a pair of VM's under Workstation 8.0.2 hosted on a Windows 7 x64 SP1 workstation.</P><P>I copied the unzipped folder to 2 locations on the hard drive, then configured the first one.&nbsp; No problem.</P><P>When I powered on the second one at the same time, I got this:</P><P><IMG src="http://community.netapp.com/legacyfs/online/15202_pastedImage_0.png" style="width: 493px; height: 168px;" /></P><P></P><P>Googled for a while on that, and finally gave up - I removed NIC4 and it would power on.</P><P>Then I hit the Serial Ports on the 2nd sim having the same named pipe paths as the first one, and modified the entry arbitrarily, and it works.</P><P></P><P>My question is about the PCI devices, and if it's: </P><P>1 - a problem of Windows 7 as the host vs Linux</P><P>2 - a limitation of the VM hardware version ?&nbsp; (I tried upgrading it and the problem persisted with the PCI devices)</P><P>3 - are they required?&nbsp; What for?</P><P></P><P>And a feature request... Break out the VSA whydontya???&nbsp; Gimme a OVF any day.&nbsp; (or at least take off the governor so I can put it on an SSD and show off some features without the hourglass requirement)</P><P></P><P>Cheers!</P><P></P><P>wes</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:30:27 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Anyone-get-8-1-RC3-C-Mode-working-with-4-nics-per-sim-under-Win7-Workstation-8/m-p/7416#M64 wesprather 2025-06-05T06:30:27Z Re: Anyone get 8.1 RC3 C-Mode working with 4 nics per sim under Win7+Workstation 8 ? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Anyone-get-8-1-RC3-C-Mode-working-with-4-nics-per-sim-under-Win7-Workstation-8/m-p/7421#M65 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><A __default_attr="5605" __jive_macro_name="user" class="jive_macro jive_macro_user" href="https://community.netapp.com/" target="_blank"></A>&nbsp; is this one that your team handles or should the question be asked in the <A href="https://forums.netapp.com/community/support" target="_blank">NetApp Support Community?</A></P><P>Mike</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:35:45 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Anyone-get-8-1-RC3-C-Mode-working-with-4-nics-per-sim-under-Win7-Workstation-8/m-p/7421#M65 crocker 2012-04-05T19:35:45Z Re: Anyone get 8.1 RC3 C-Mode working with 4 nics per sim under Win7+Workstation 8 ? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Anyone-get-8-1-RC3-C-Mode-working-with-4-nics-per-sim-under-Win7-Workstation-8/m-p/7426#M66 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Looks like you were not able to help on this issue here.&nbsp; We have external and internal subject matter experts in the NetApp Support Community answering questions about <A href="https://forums.netapp.com/community/support/external_sme/post!input.jspa?container=2003&amp;containerType=14&amp;tagSet=&amp;tags=software,data-ontap" target="_blank">Data ONTAP</A>.&nbsp; If you have a NetApp SSO account login, this link enables you to engage them about this.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:55:01 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Anyone-get-8-1-RC3-C-Mode-working-with-4-nics-per-sim-under-Win7-Workstation-8/m-p/7426#M66 crocker 2012-04-09T15:55:01Z Re: Anyone get 8.1 RC3 C-Mode working with 4 nics per sim under Win7+Workstation 8 ? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Anyone-get-8-1-RC3-C-Mode-working-with-4-nics-per-sim-under-Win7-Workstation-8/m-p/7431#M67 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Check you havent modified the second VM.&nbsp; </P><P></P><P>I have had this problem previously when I downloaded the simulator, it came with 4 NICs and no CD-ROM.&nbsp; I added a CDROM and got the same error.&nbsp; Its caused by the way the vmx file was created.</P><P></P><P>Edit the vmx file and remove any scsi.0 entries.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 04 May 2012 18:37:33 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/Anyone-get-8-1-RC3-C-Mode-working-with-4-nics-per-sim-under-Win7-Workstation-8/m-p/7431#M67 CHANDMI73 2012-05-04T18:37:33Z