I was finally granted access to our company's netapp support account so I could download and gain some setup knowledge on the ONTAP simulator. After finding out that only 9.5 is available for working with ESXi, I finally got my two nodes stood up and running. The problem I'm facing is that 9.5 is old (all of our production NetApp appliances are running 9.11-ish) and would like to upgrade it to match what we have in prod. This experience of setting up an ha cluster "from scratch" would help tremendously with a large project that's coming up soon.
I'm trying to figure out how to enable HA mode, only to find that HA mode doesn't work (well/at all?) in the Simulator. According to the Configuration -> Cluster -> Update, I can't perform any updates to the cluster until I enable HA mode.
I tried configuring storage failover, but it insists it's not in HA mode either due to a limitation in the simulator itself or I've not configured it right (either are equally plausible at this point).
Storage failover steps I've performed:
- cluster ha modify -configured true
- storage failover modify -mode ha -node netapp-01
- storage failover modify -mode ha -node netapp-02
- storage failover modify -node netapp-01 -enabled true
- storage failover modify -node netapp-02 -enabled true
The first command returned with an error "Could not retrieve partner SFO information: entry doesn't exist"
The last two commands returned an error "Failed to enable storage failover service. Reason: non-HA mode"
Any suggestions as to how I can get to be able to update my two nodes to something current? I don't have VMware Player , ESXi is my only option, otherwise I would just go with the 9.11 sim instead.
Thank you!
