OnTap Simulator 8.1.1 no longer running on ESXi 5.1 free

[rkeu]

I'm the only one with this issue? After upgrade of my ESXi host to 5.1 the OnTap Simulator 8.1.1 no longer work. I only get the follwoing error:

Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/<id>/vsim-DOT811-7m/DataONTAP-sim.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.

The system cannot find the file specified

VMware ESX cannot find the virtual disk "/vmfs/volumes/<id>/vsim-DOT811-7m/DataONTAP-sim.vmdk". Verify the path is valid and try again.

Before the Update everything worked without any issue. The vmdk Files are there, it also not works if i manually assign those disk files. I have also never made any snapshots, this cannot be the problem.

A re-download of the Simulator files and add to the Host, get the same issue.

[shariq_aijaz]

Thanks Steven...I got the solution.

By licenses I mean vsim licenses for Ontap 8.2 simulator. I know they are easily available under simulator download page. But the problem arises once I did the conversion of vsim using VMware Convertor. The serial number of the vsim got changed,somehow, and because from 8.2 the license are node locked. The demo licenses given on the simulator download page are not validating.

The solution to this, i followed, is that I first changed the serial number of the vsim to the one given on the simulator download page and then licensed the vsim.

PS: Changing the serial number is a tedious task but I followed one of the community post and it worked for me after couple of attempts.

Regards

Shariq

[MichaelCade]

Hi there, i am also having this issue i have downloaded the 8.1.2 sim for ESXi from my NOW site,

-i have then used the ESXi shell to extract to relevant datastore on host,

-added vm to inventory

-using the # vmkload_mod multiextent in the shell i have ran this

-power on virtual machine and i then get this error...

is there a specific order i need to add the virtual machine etc? this happens on both 7mode sims and clustered ontap sims....

for info i am running vsphere esxi 5.1

[MichaelCade]

Just removed sim from inventory and re added to no avail, same error around this DataONTAP-sim.vmdk file not being found when it is clearly in the datastore

[MichaelCade]

Ok i resolved this issue,

basically the reason is because the Sim.vmdk file is a sparse file, so this needs to be changed to either a thin or thick provisioned disk. this is done through the command line using the following commands *note you have to navigate to the correct datastore to issue these commands.

esxcli system module load -m multiextent - to be ran once on each esx node

vmkfstools -i DataONTAP-sim.vmdk DataONTAP-sim-new.vmdk -d zeroedthick

vmkfstools -U DataONTAP-sim.vmdk

vmkfstools -E DataONTAP-sim-new.vmdk DataONTAP-sim.vmdk

this needs to be ran on each netapp sim datastore both 7mode and clustered ontap this will allow the virtual machine to then boot. this is applicable to version 5.1 and ontap 8.1.2

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2036572

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1022242

[MichaelCade]

I have explained in detail here. http://www.vzilla.co.uk/vzilla-blog.html