Ontap Simulator in Google Cloud

[jbielasz]

Hi,

I would like to test something with Ansible Tower and ONTAP.

It would be great to install the ONTAP Simulator in Google Cloud where I already have Ansible Tower.

I can see that it's possible to import .OVA files into GCP.

Has anyone tried to import the ONTAP Simulator .OVA  ?  Is it possible ?

Regards,

Jakub

[phoebeg]

Not sure if it's possible (definitely couldn't be used for prod or supported even if technically possible), but you could run a Cloud Volumes ONTAP instance: https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/occm/task_getting_started_gcp.html

If you are testing on premises workflows with Tower, you probably want to use the ansible modules for ONTAP, but Cloud Manager provides a RESTful API for Cloud Volumes ONTAP too.

[jasonl4]

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like GCP supports importing FreeBSD based OVAs.

$ gcloud compute instances import node1 --source-uri=gs://bucket/vsim-netapp-DOT9.11.1-cm_nodar.ova --zone australia-southeast1-a
WARNING: Importing OVF. This may take 40 minutes for smaller OVFs and up to a couple of hours for larger OVFs.
Created [https://cloudbuild.googleapis.com/v1/projects/jasonl4/locations/australia-southeast1/builds/ba981798-c830-4272-835e-468b86fb24c0].
Logs are available at [https://console.cloud.google.com/cloud-build/builds;region=australia-southeast1/ba981798-c830-4272-835e-468b86fb24c0?project=NNNNNNNNN].
starting build "ba981798-c830-4272-835e-468b86fb24c0"
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:34:44Z Starting OVF import workflow.
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:34:46Z Creating scratch bucket `jasonl4-ovf-import-bkt-australia-southeast1` in australia-southeast1 region
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:34:48Z Extracting gs://bucket/vsim-netapp-DOT9.11.1-cm_nodar.ova OVA archive to gs://jasonl4-ovf-import-bkt-australia-southeast1/6vnt8/ovf
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:34:48Z Extracting: vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate.ovf to gs://jasonl4-ovf-import-bkt-australia-southeast1/6vnt8/ovf/vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate.ovf
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:34:48Z Extracting: vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate.mf to gs://jasonl4-ovf-import-bkt-australia-southeast1/6vnt8/ovf/vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate.mf
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:34:48Z Extracting: vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate-disk1.vmdk to gs://jasonl4-ovf-import-bkt-australia-southeast1/6vnt8/ovf/vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate-disk1.vmdk
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:34:56Z Extracting: vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate-disk2.vmdk to gs://jasonl4-ovf-import-bkt-australia-southeast1/6vnt8/ovf/vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate-disk2.vmdk
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:34:56Z Extracting: vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate-disk3.vmdk to gs://jasonl4-ovf-import-bkt-australia-southeast1/6vnt8/ovf/vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate-disk3.vmdk
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:34:56Z Extracting: vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate-disk4.vmdk to gs://jasonl4-ovf-import-bkt-australia-southeast1/6vnt8/ovf/vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate-disk4.vmdk
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:34:56Z Found gs://jasonl4-ovf-import-bkt-australia-southeast1/6vnt8/ovf/vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate.ovf
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:34:57Z Found gs://jasonl4-ovf-import-bkt-australia-southeast1/6vnt8/ovf/vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate-disk1.vmdk
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:34:57Z Found gs://jasonl4-ovf-import-bkt-australia-southeast1/6vnt8/ovf/vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate-disk2.vmdk
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:34:57Z Found gs://jasonl4-ovf-import-bkt-australia-southeast1/6vnt8/ovf/vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate-disk3.vmdk
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:34:57Z Found gs://jasonl4-ovf-import-bkt-australia-southeast1/6vnt8/ovf/vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate-disk4.vmdk
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:34:57Z Didn't find valid OS info in OVF descriptor. OS will be detected from boot disk.
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:34:57Z Will create instance of `n1-standard-2` machine type.
[import-disk-3]: 2024-07-10T06:34:57Z Inspecting the image file...
[import-disk-2]: 2024-07-10T06:34:57Z Inspecting the image file...
[import-disk-1]: 2024-07-10T06:34:57Z Inspecting the image file...
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:38:49Z Importing boot Disk Image ...
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:38:49Z Inspecting the image file...
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:41:47Z Inspecting disk for OS and bootloader
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:43:44Z Inspection result=elapsed_time_ms:117434
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:43:48Z Cleaning up.
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:43:48Z Deleting content of: gs://jasonl4-ovf-import-bkt-australia-southeast1/6vnt8/ovf/
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:43:48Z Deleting gs://jasonl4-ovf-import-bkt-australia-southeast1/6vnt8/ovf/vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate-disk1.vmdk
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:43:48Z Deleting gs://jasonl4-ovf-import-bkt-australia-southeast1/6vnt8/ovf/vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate-disk2.vmdk
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:43:48Z Deleting gs://jasonl4-ovf-import-bkt-australia-southeast1/6vnt8/ovf/vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate-disk3.vmdk
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:43:48Z Deleting gs://jasonl4-ovf-import-bkt-australia-southeast1/6vnt8/ovf/vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate-disk4.vmdk
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:43:48Z Deleting gs://jasonl4-ovf-import-bkt-australia-southeast1/6vnt8/ovf/vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate.mf
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:43:48Z Deleting gs://jasonl4-ovf-import-bkt-australia-southeast1/6vnt8/ovf/vsim-NetAppDOT-simulate.ovf
[import-ovf]: 2024-07-10T06:43:51Z could not detect operating system. Please re-import with the operating system specified. For more information, see https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/import/importing-virtual-disks#bootable
ERROR
ERROR: build step 0 "australia-southeast1-docker.pkg.dev/compute-image-import/wrappers/gce_ovf_import:release" failed: step exited with non-zero status: 1
ERROR: (gcloud.compute.instances.import) build ba981798-c830-4272-835e-468b86fb24c0 completed with status "FAILURE"
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