Scott, I appreciate your patience but I'm probably miscommunicating what I mean.
My question is : can I get access to the simulator without having a serial number registered ?
I have no doubt that the simulator allows you to sharpen and hone your ONTAP knowledge, that is why I am keen to obtain it and use it alongside the web-based training courses I am planning to purchase. I figured it would make sense that someone prepared to shell out for the courses would be considered serious enough from an interest point of view to warrant access to the tools.
I might though, ask another question. Surely the simulator must be crippled in some way to discourage use of it as a real filer ? It occurred to me that if it was run under VMWare on a powerful host machine, and a nice big set of physical disks mapped in, you'd have something very close to a real filer for NFS/CIFS/etc purposes. I'm guessing there are probably restrictions on the max size of an aggregate etc. (as well as licensing restrictions)
Brendan