Sorry to get all legal about this, but the simulator is subject to a license and is not freely deployable. I would advise reading license.txt which is included in the simulator package, which constrains the use of the simulator to specific scenarios.
IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer), but you may know someone that is and can help interpreting it.
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-----Original Message----- From: Fox, Adam Sent: 17 January 2008 17:26 To: Buerger, Andreas; Johnson, James A [HDS]; Bill Holland Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Simulator - Disk Array
The biggest hurdle you'll have is no support for your simulators. So depending on how mission critical this replication is, you'll need to decide if it's worth it for the price.
I'm not saying it won't work, I believe it will. But if you have any problems down the line, tech support will be limited as to what they can do since the simulators don't have support contracts.
-- Adam Fox adamfox@netapp.com
-----Original Message----- From: Buerger, Andreas [mailto:andreas.buerger@wincor-nixdorf.com] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:12 PM To: Fox, Adam; Johnson, James A [HDS]; Bill Holland Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Simulator - Disk Array
Hi,
One additional question regarding this topic. We're planing the usage of netapp sims, for somekind of small data replication from our central datacenter to home offices. Today we're syncing the data with unix tools, but we think about implementing a netapp sim, because of some very useful netapp functios. The amount will be about 1-2gb, which has to be mirrored each day to the home offices. I think we can optimize speed and and we would be able to throttle bandwith with the usage of the simulators snapmirror. The solution will be a blackbox for the users, just only for automatic syncing the data from our headquarter to their private office. For this usage, netapp functions provide very powerful and useful methods, thats why I'm thinking about this...
What do you think about these ideas? Are there any restrictions, which do not allow the commercial use of netapp sims? Or do you think it's just an unrealistic idea, to implement such a solution?
Regards Andreas
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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Fox, Adam Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 5:19 PM To: Johnson, James A [HDS]; Bill Holland Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Simulator - Disk Array
No. The simulator liceses only work on simulators, not real filers. Licenses are priced by platform, but older (i.e. EOL platforms) may not have prices.
There's been talk about "home use" licensing, but I'm not aware if it was ever implemented.
-- Adam Fox adamfox@netapp.com
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From: Johnson, James A [HDS] [mailto:James.Johnson8@hdsupply.com] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:36 AM To: Johnson, James A [HDS]; Bill Holland Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Simulator - Disk Array
I know this probably doesn't work. But if I purchase a old filer, would the simulator licenses work on that? How much does the licenses cost anyway?
James
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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Johnson, James A [HDS] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 8:13 AM To: Bill Holland Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Simulator - Disk Array
Thanks, I thought that would be the case.
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From: Bill Holland [mailto:hollandwl@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 8:12 AM To: Johnson, James A [HDS] Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Simulator - Disk Array
No. The simulator is limited to 28 1GB virtual disks.
On 1/11/08, Johnson, James A [HDS] James.Johnson8@hdsupply.com wrote:
Can a simulator be used for real disk? E.g. I build a linux box and attach 36 external disks to it, would the simulator be able to see that storage? If so, how? Does anyone have instruction on how to do this?
Thanks,
James