8.3.1 OVA format Simulator uses 5 GB RAM. If lowering to 2 GB Simulator does not start anymore.

[wangjundragon]

Big Problem with new Sim 8.3.1 format is the high amount of Memory 5 GB usage! 8.2 Sim used 1.6 GB Memory and now 5 GB. Especial if running in VMware Workstation means

for a Cluster 10 GB RAM what is very high. With Windows AD so almost no Memory Left to play around with other VM.

Think Back when 7-Mode used for HA only ~512 MB!

After Installation changing back ot 1.6 GB, Sim 8.3 crash and does not start anymore. When putting back to 5 GB all works again.

Does anybody has an Idea how to setup to 1.6 GB Memory and that is working? Is there any setenv?

[aborzenkov]

Is it possible to use RAID0? It would eliminate all overhead associated with redundancy. Just pretend we are flex array 🙂

[SeanHatfield]

Not in this simulator.  It has a FAS personality so raid0 is not an option when you create an aggregate.  If you want better perfromance try CloudONTAP or get an evaluation of Edge.  Both of those platforms use virtual disk subsystems, and both use RAID0 since the underlying physical platform is responsible for RAID.