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Simulator ONTAP 8.1: Huge File?

HEINRICHVOGLER — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:23:41 GMT

Hi, I was giving the ONTAP 8.1 simulator for VMPlayer a spin on my fedora Desktop.

On untar-ing vsim-7m.tgz I'm getting that the file DataONTAP-sim-flat.vmdk would be over 250 GB

Is that correct? It seems rather on the large side...

[HV]

Re: Simulator ONTAP 8.1: Huge File?

resqme914 — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:02:16 GMT

It's definitely not over 250GB. My C: drive is only 200GB and I've installed two copies. I think 8.1 is over 2GB, and 8.1.1 is over 7GB.

Re: Simulator ONTAP 8.1: Huge File?

radek_kubka — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:44:45 GMT

It doesn't sound right at all - the entire ONTAP 8.1 VM folder takes about 8GB of space in my case.

Re: Simulator ONTAP 8.1: Huge File?

OFUYAEDVN — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:18:33 GMT

I had the same issue so I know the original poster is right. I unzipped the original .tgz file and the resulting .tar file occupied all of 240GB. However, when I extracted the DataONTAP-sim-flat.vmdk file, it was only 1GB. Then vmplayer for windows didn't recognize the file........

Re: Simulator ONTAP 8.1: Huge File?

nomisunrider — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:48:44 GMT

I'm encountering the same issue. Did something change to the source download recently to cause this?

Re: Simulator ONTAP 8.1: Huge File?

scottgelb — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 03:42:31 GMT

I extracted the 8.1.1 file and it was 8.14GB. Which direct link did you use? I'd like to try it and see on that link.

Re: Simulator ONTAP 8.1: Huge File?

HEINRICHVOGLER — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 07:58:21 GMT

It turns out the vmdk in question is sparse format max-size 250 GB, but there are only a few GB preallocated.

So this must be a bug with tar or perhaps the vmdk header is wrong?

Anyways, the 8.1.1 simulator works fine for me.

[NG]

Re: Simulator ONTAP 8.1: Huge File?

nomisunrider — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:04:24 GMT

I need to test 8.1 not 8.1.1

This is the page with the link (I don't think we are supposed to post direct links to the simulator files):

http://support.netapp.com/NOW/download/tools/simulator/ontap/8.0/

Under 8.1, click the 7-mode link for ESX

Re: Simulator ONTAP 8.1: Huge File?

nomisunrider — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:41:55 GMT

FYI, I found a system with more free space and was able to extract it all. It is 240GB.

This is on windows 2008 r2. On my linux box, I ran out of free space. That system had 160GB free. So it is an OS independent issue.

Re: Simulator ONTAP 8.1: Huge File?

pitrakou — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:42:40 GMT

Seems I have the same issue. I have a 250GB Virtual disk in the image that I downloaded off the official site in the c-mode for ESX file. See screen grab:

Has anyone found a way of reducing this at all? Can I just remove this Hard Disk from the config?

Thanks

Re: Simulator ONTAP 8.1: Huge File?

pitrakou — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:28:59 GMT

Let's just say that it's best not to remove the disk.