I've had good experience with them as a method of creating "expected results" for change management. Also, they're good to test automations tools against - creating and destroying volumes, flexclones, or your example of walking mibs, are all things that should work well on a sim.
-N
On 10/1/08 10:40 AM, "Matthew Zito" mzito@gridapp.com wrote:
I haven't used the 7.3 sim, but I and my team use sims pretty frequently for training and testing purposes of simple configs - they're obviously not the way to simulate very large environments, but its great for experimenting with snapshots, flexvols, flexclones, etc. without using your very expensive netapp storage.
Thanks, Matt