He all,
I'm working for a start-up now who is trying to develop against the OnTap SNMP agent and API to do Systems Mgmt with the appliance we make. I've suggested using the SIM for OnTap 7.3 and have stood it up on a ESX VM imaged with CenOS 5.2.
I can install the OnTAP SIM just fine with all the defaults using dir /sim, 3 disks, and using eth0 on the VM image of CenOS.
Our lab at work uses 192.168.10.1 for a Def Gate and the host VM is using 192.168.9.110 and I can ping the Def Gate from CenOS just fine. But when I fire up the SIM (letting it DHCP an addr) I can't ping the Def Gate from the SIM.
So I asked the ESX admin at work to create another interface on my VM CenOS environ. He gave it a static, (192.168.9.109) and I applied it to eth1 as it were. I STILL can't ping the Def Gate via the SIM. I CAN ping the IP I stood up for the SIM (.109) from other boxes in the lab but just not ANYTHING from inside the SIM on the VM.
Anybody try to use a VM to run the SIM in and see similar experiences ?
I stood up the same 7.3 SIM at home on a Generic Athlon 3200+ running CenOS 5.2 and it's FINE. That box only has one NIC and the OnTap 7.3 SIM piggy backs onto eth0 just fine creating NS0 and booting up fine.
Suggestions welcomed.
I've asked the lab manager for my own bare metal to run the SIM on in meantime....
TIA
-Rob
Make sure you specify a metric when you set the default gateway. Example:
route add default <gateway IP> 1
If you have this typo and forget to put it in the rc file, you may not realize this until you try to manually set the default gateway.
No, this has never happened to me before ;-)
Stetson M. Webster Professional Services Engineer - NCIE-SAN, NCIE-B&R NetApp Global Services - Southeast District 919.250.0052 Mobile Stetson.Webster@netapp.com netapp.com/accelerate
-----Original Message----- From: Robert Borowicz [mailto:rob-7704@austin.rr.com] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 9:24 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Running OnTap SIM 7.3 on ESX VM
He all,
I'm working for a start-up now who is trying to develop against the OnTap SNMP agent and API to do Systems Mgmt with the appliance we make. I've suggested using the SIM for OnTap 7.3 and have stood it up on a ESX VM imaged with CenOS 5.2.
I can install the OnTAP SIM just fine with all the defaults using dir /sim, 3 disks, and using eth0 on the VM image of CenOS.
Our lab at work uses 192.168.10.1 for a Def Gate and the host VM is using 192.168.9.110 and I can ping the Def Gate from CenOS just fine. But when I fire up the SIM (letting it DHCP an addr) I can't ping the Def Gate from the SIM.
So I asked the ESX admin at work to create another interface on my VM CenOS environ. He gave it a static, (192.168.9.109) and I applied it to eth1 as it were. I STILL can't ping the Def Gate via the SIM. I CAN ping the IP I stood up for the SIM (.109) from other boxes in the lab but just not ANYTHING from inside the SIM on the VM.
Anybody try to use a VM to run the SIM in and see similar experiences ?
I stood up the same 7.3 SIM at home on a Generic Athlon 3200+ running CenOS 5.2 and it's FINE. That box only has one NIC and the OnTap 7.3 SIM piggy backs onto eth0 just fine creating NS0 and booting up fine.
Suggestions welcomed.
I've asked the lab manager for my own bare metal to run the SIM on in meantime....
TIA
-Rob
Please read my responses inline below.
On Oct 10, 2008, at 9:24 AM, Robert Borowicz wrote:
Our lab at work uses 192.168.10.1 for a Def Gate and the host VM is using 192.168.9.110 and I can ping the Def Gate from CenOS just fine. But when I fire up the SIM (letting it DHCP an addr) I can't ping the Def Gate from the SIM.
So I asked the ESX admin at work to create another interface on my VM CenOS environ. He gave it a static, (192.168.9.109) and I applied it to eth1 as it were. I STILL can't ping the Def Gate via the SIM. I CAN ping the IP I stood up for the SIM (.109) from other boxes in the lab but just not ANYTHING from inside the SIM on the VM.
Anybody try to use a VM to run the SIM in and see similar experiences?
Try enabling promiscuous mode on the port group to which the Sim VM is connected. I believe that's required in order to make the Simulator run as a VM under ESX:
<http://blog.scottlowe.org/2006/06/27/netapp-ontap-simulator-and-esx-server/
Good luck!
Thanks Scott,
That thought had crossed my mind. Perhaps the ESX admin didn't give this VM permission to go Promiscuous? Not familiar with ESX features, but perhaps that's the issue.
-Rob
Scott Lowe wrote:
Please read my responses inline below.
On Oct 10, 2008, at 9:24 AM, Robert Borowicz wrote:
Our lab at work uses 192.168.10.1 for a Def Gate and the host VM is using 192.168.9.110 and I can ping the Def Gate from CenOS just fine. But when I fire up the SIM (letting it DHCP an addr) I can't ping the Def Gate from the SIM.
So I asked the ESX admin at work to create another interface on my VM CenOS environ. He gave it a static, (192.168.9.109) and I applied it to eth1 as it were. I STILL can't ping the Def Gate via the SIM. I CAN ping the IP I stood up for the SIM (.109) from other boxes in the lab but just not ANYTHING from inside the SIM on the VM.
Anybody try to use a VM to run the SIM in and see similar experiences?
Try enabling promiscuous mode on the port group to which the Sim VM is connected. I believe that's required in order to make the Simulator run as a VM under ESX:
http://blog.scottlowe.org/2006/06/27/netapp-ontap-simulator-and-esx-server/
Good luck!
Scott/Mo/James/Robert et al,
Thank you so much for this timely tip! I have been pulling my hair out....
I've already passed this on to my ESX admin....
You guys ROCK!!!!
-Rob
---- Scott Lowe slowe@eplus.com wrote:
Please read my responses inline below.
On Oct 10, 2008, at 9:24 AM, Robert Borowicz wrote:
Our lab at work uses 192.168.10.1 for a Def Gate and the host VM is using 192.168.9.110 and I can ping the Def Gate from CenOS just fine. But when I fire up the SIM (letting it DHCP an addr) I can't ping the Def Gate from the SIM.
So I asked the ESX admin at work to create another interface on my VM CenOS environ. He gave it a static, (192.168.9.109) and I applied it to eth1 as it were. I STILL can't ping the Def Gate via the SIM. I CAN ping the IP I stood up for the SIM (.109) from other boxes in the lab but just not ANYTHING from inside the SIM on the VM.
Anybody try to use a VM to run the SIM in and see similar experiences?
Try enabling promiscuous mode on the port group to which the Sim VM is connected. I believe that's required in order to make the Simulator run as a VM under ESX:
<http://blog.scottlowe.org/2006/06/27/netapp-ontap-simulator-and-esx-server/
Good luck!
-- Scott
To get the OnTap simulator working correctly with ESX, the virtual switch that your VM is connected to must allow promiscuous mode (which is disabled by default). Read the following:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/7091
-Robert
Robert Borowicz wrote:
He all,
I'm working for a start-up now who is trying to develop against the OnTap SNMP agent and API to do Systems Mgmt with the appliance we make. I've suggested using the SIM for OnTap 7.3 and have stood it up on a ESX VM imaged with CenOS 5.2.
I can install the OnTAP SIM just fine with all the defaults using dir /sim, 3 disks, and using eth0 on the VM image of CenOS.
Our lab at work uses 192.168.10.1 for a Def Gate and the host VM is using 192.168.9.110 and I can ping the Def Gate from CenOS just fine. But when I fire up the SIM (letting it DHCP an addr) I can't ping the Def Gate from the SIM.
So I asked the ESX admin at work to create another interface on my VM CenOS environ. He gave it a static, (192.168.9.109) and I applied it to eth1 as it were. I STILL can't ping the Def Gate via the SIM. I CAN ping the IP I stood up for the SIM (.109) from other boxes in the lab but just not ANYTHING from inside the SIM on the VM.
Anybody try to use a VM to run the SIM in and see similar experiences ?
I stood up the same 7.3 SIM at home on a Generic Athlon 3200+ running CenOS 5.2 and it's FINE. That box only has one NIC and the OnTap 7.3 SIM piggy backs onto eth0 just fine creating NS0 and booting up fine.
Suggestions welcomed.
I've asked the lab manager for my own bare metal to run the SIM on in meantime....
TIA
-Rob
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