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Deploy ONTAP vSIM with vSCSI-Disks on ESXi

FelixTeupke
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I've played around quite a bit with the vSIM in my lab environment (running in a vSphere cluster).
All my tests were quite short-lived and limited in scope, though, since I have only very limited storage available.
I read here that the simulators behind the Hands-On-Labs use vSCSI disks instead of emulated disks, and I tried getting that working with a new vSIM instance by adding a SCSI-controller and some 30GB-Disks.
I could not get those disks to show up though, no matter which type of SCSI-controller I selected within VMware.
@SeanHatfield is there anything I have to do within the vSIM so the disks are recognized?

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SeanHatfield
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There are several bootlegs you need to set or unset to switch it from vha disks to vscsi disks.  I don't have a list handy, but if you review the bootargs on an LoD instance you'll see the differences.  Also use the LSI-SAS type scsi controller.  The PVSCSI controller isn't working.

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