ONTAP Simulator:

Getting Started Quick

​A guide to the minimum steps to get a
NetApp ONTAP 9 simulator running on a
typical Windows or macOS system.

​Version 1.0

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Table of contents
ONTAP Simulator: Getting Started Quick

§ Overview of the ONTAP Simulator

§ Download and Install VMware Player
§ Download and Install ONTAP Simulator
§ ONTAP First Boot and Cluster Setup
§ Immediate First Steps for your Cluster
§ Polishing Steps for your Cluster
§ Additional Resources and Issues
§ macOS Installation, Setup and Hints

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 Overview of the ONTAP Simulator

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ONTAP Simulator: History and What is it?
Available to customers, partners and NetApp personnel

§ Has been available and in use for over a decade, since at least ONTAP 6
§ Previously required a Linux host and a lot of CLI setup, skills, and paid-for
virtualization products (like: VMware Workstation, Parallels, Fusion, etc)
§ As of ONTAP 8.0 it is a much simpler package (.ova) which can be quickly
opened and booted on many types of systems and VM Player is free
§ What is it?
§ When you download a version of the simulator, boot it and run it, you are not running code that is
“similar and simulated” ONTAP, “it is” in fact that version of ONTAP (features, bugs and all)
§ The difference is that on the underneath side of the simulator, instead of having the low-level drivers
for hardware items like NVRAM, flash-card, SAS adapters, shelves and disks, those things are
substituted with drivers for local disk files on your system.

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ONTAP Simulator: Software Diagram
Software running on your system
Your Windows or macOS system

VM Player or Fusion
ONTAP Simulator
28 1GB disks; Initially with: 14 owned by Node-01 with a 3-disk aggr0 aggregate
…
DNS Server ex: 192.168.x.10

192.168.x.2
e0a e0b e0c e0d
Optional
Cluster Interconnect
VMnet8
network
192.168.x.1
VMnet8 Adapter

Map a
CIFS Share
Map a PowerShell
System Manager ssh, cli, putty iSCSI LUN With Toolkit
Mount an
NFS Export

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ONTAP Simulator: Good and bad use cases
Things the simulator will be good at … and not so good

§ Good at:
§ New system setup – not hardware specific things like SP setup or ADP, but just like a real system it
needs network, aggregate, SVM, protocol and miscellaneous setup
§ Ongoing management – Creating and modifying Aggregates, Storage Virtual Machines,
Volumes, Policies, Snapshots, Qtrees, Quotas, Exports, Shares, LUNs, QoS, events,
statistics, networking, security, and SnapMirror/Vault

§ Not so good at:

§ Things to do with: service-processor, installation, failover, doing upgrades, MetroCluster

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ONTAP Simulator: Disclaimers for this ‘Getting Started Quick’ Guide
Simulator is available in many flavors and configurations

§ To keep this process relevant, simple, repeatable, and to work on the

broadest range of hardware (laptops w/8GB of memory) we are focusing on:
§ Clustered Data ONTAP
§ ONTAP Version 9
§ Single Node cluster

§ However, all of the following are available and possible:

§ 7-Mode mode Data ONTAP going back to 7.3 and up through 8.2
§ 2-node Clusters (8.2 and 8.3 are still available for download)
§ Notes:
§ Two node clusters require twice the memory footprint, as such, it’s probably more valuable from a learning and
experimentation perspective to create two single-node clusters if you have the memory
§ Going back to 7.3 means running the 7.3 simulator on a Linux system (Linux on VM Player for example)

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Laptop or System Requirements
Assumption is this matches many of the configurations out there

§ Hardware:
§ 64-bit x86 CPU with 1.3GHz
§ Two processor cores
§ 8GB Memory
§ Free Disk Space (for one simulator)
§ ~10 GB to get started
§ Up to ~30 GB after months of normal use
§ Virtualization Technology CPU Feature

§ Access to the Internet:

§ VMware – to download VM Player
§ NetApp – to download ONTAP

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ONTAP Simulator: Network address planning
Consider each simulator instance something you may copy, restore later or even share

§ If valuable, and you have the disk space, you could have a number ONTAP simulator VMs (9.0, 8.3.2, etc) under the control of VM
Player but run them one at a time. Since someday, you may run a system with more memory, think of each VM as an instance of
ONTAP that may run at the same time … so use unique names and IP addresses for each instance

§ While you may start out with a single-node cluster, allocate IP addresses with the idea you may upgrade it to a two node at some
point in the future. Reserve addresses for the second node even if you won’t use them right now

§ In cDOT you always have management sorts of LIFs (cluster, node, intercluster) and data LIFs owned by SVMs. You have 254
addresses to play with in your VM Player subnet so allocate ranges in an easy to remember fashion. For example, a scheme might
be something like below. (where ‘x’ is your VM Player or Fusion generated subnet 3rd octet number):

§ First Cluster (10s, 20s) § Second Cluster (30s, 40s) § Third Cluster (50s, 60s)
§ Mgmt LIF addrs: 192.168.x.10 -> 19 § Mgmt LIF addrs: 192.168.x.30 -> 39 § Mgmt LIF addrs: 192.168.x.50 -> 59
§ Cluster mgmt: 192.168.x.10 § Cluster mgmt: 192.168.x.30 § Cluster mgmt: 192.168.x.50
§ Node1 mgmt: 192.168.x.11 § Node1 mgmt: 192.168.x.31 § Node1 mgmt: 192.168.x.51
§ Node1 intercluster: 192.168.x.12 § Node1 intercluster: 192.168.x.32 § Node1 Intercluster: 192.168.x.52
§ Node2 mgmt: 192.168.x.13 § Node2 mgmt: 192.168.x.33 § Node2 mgmt: 192.168.x.53
§ Node2 intercluster: 192.168.168.x.14 § Node2 intercluster: 192.168.168.x.34 § Node2 Intercluster: 192.168.168.x.54
§ Data LIF addrs: 192168.x.20 -> 29 § Data LIF addrs: 192.168.x.40 -> 49 § Data LIF addrs: 192.168.x.60 -> 69

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 Download and Install
VMware Player
Also known as:
VMware Workstation Player, Workstation Player, VM Player or VMplayer

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DownloadVM Player from VMware.com
Go to Login -> My VMware -> and Register if you do not already have an account

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Download VM Player from VMware.com (continued)
Find All Downloads -> look for VMware Workstation Player -> then View Download Components

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Download VM Player from VMware.com (continued)
On the VMware Workstation Player page -> select Download for Windows 64-bit -> then Save, then Run

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Install the VMware Workstation VM Player
Allow the installer to make changes to your device; follow the Setup Wizard instructions by hitting [Next]

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Install the VMware Workstation VM Player (continued)
Setup Wizard questions are fairly straight forward. Likely to require a reboot at the end

Notes on Setup Wizard options:

• It will ask if you have a license,

ignore that for now. Later you’ll
just register your email address

• Screen shots show options

selected. I suggest the
Enhanced Keyboard Drive but
not certain it’s required.

• It will ask you to click [Yes] to

restart at the end

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VM Player Final Steps: Determine the subnet it generated
VM Player creates a virtual subnet within your system which ONTAP will use. Use ipconfig to look that up

Once VM Player is installed it creates two virtual

adapters on your system called VMnet1 and
1 VMnet8. VM Player generates random IP subnets for
these adapters. We will be using the VMnet8 subnet.

Open a CMD or PowerShell window and type

ipconfig. Look through the adapters and find the
VMnet8 adapter.

Write down to record that subnet as it will become

the subnet your cluster lives in. In this example it has
generated and is using the 192.168.23.0 subnet with
a class-c mask (255.255.255.0).

2 The address 192.168.23.1 is your laptop’s IP

3 address into that subnet. Later, we will be placing
ONTAP cluster and node management LIFs into that
same subnet.
NOTE: Be aware this guide mixes examples of the VMnet8 on different subnets (192.168.23.0 above, 17.0 later on, etc)
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VM Player Final Steps: Enabling Virtualization Technology
VT-x must be enabled before VM Player and Simulator can operate properly

§ This could have been the FIRST step but leaving until here since it may already be on
§ This feature goes by several names: Intel VT-x, Virtualization Technology (VTx), amd-v
§ It may already be enabled on your system. It appears Windows 8.x and 10 already require
and have VT-x enabled so enabling this may only be an issue for Windows 7 users.
§ Make sure it is Enabled, Save Settings and continue booting up
§ OR … if you think it’s enabled, just go ahead and install VM Player and ONTAP Simulator
and keep an eye out for any VT-x related errors when attempting to start the ONTAP VM
§ The following slide shows some example BIOS screenshots showing the setting. It seems to
be found under Security, Power, or Advanced menus depending on manufacturer
§ VMware has this KB article with more details: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003944

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VM Player Final Steps: Enabling Virtualization Technology
(continued)
VT-x Must be enabled before VM Player can operate properly – some example BIOS screenshots

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 Download and Install
ONTAP Simulator

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Downloading ONTAP 9 Simulator to your System
Go to NetApp Support Site, login using Customer, NetApp, or Partner Credentials

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Downloading ONTAP 9 Simulator to your System
Use Downloads dropdown -> Product Evaluation -> Data ONTAP Simulator

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Downloading ONTAP 9 Simulator to your System
On the Simulate ONTAP page -> select Simulator 8.x and 9.x – next page Accept T&C and click Continue

2
3
1

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Downloading ONTAP 9 Simulator to your System
Download the 4 files identified for ONTAP 9.0 to a folder on your system (Downloads, or maybe a folder within)

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Downloading ONTAP 9 Simulator to your System
Now you should have those four files on your system somewhere

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Launch VM Player and select Open a Virtual Machine
Browse to where you downloaded the ova file and select and open it

2
1

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You will be asked to give it a name and store it somewhere
Give it a name meaningful to you and situation. \Documents\Virtual Machines is a good default, click [Import]

NOTE: This name will become the

name of the Virtual Machine (VM) to
VM Player. It can be different than
the actual ONTAP cluster or node
name but it might help to keep them
the same. So adding -01 to your
planned cluster name would
indicate this is the first, and maybe
only, node in the ONTAP cluster.

3
2

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Your ONTAP node is ready to Powered On (aka: Play)
You can Play or Edit the virtual machine, click Edit virtual machine settings just to look at some things

Don’t change
anything for now!

Just click [Cancel]

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 ONTAP First Boot and
Cluster Setup

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Click Play and you’ll begin to see ONTAP Booting
This is similar to powering on a FAS controller for the first time

NOTES: You are likely to see two things occur on

this first boot:

• A window may appear asking you to download

and install VMware Tools … ignore it by clicking
[Remind me later]

• Remember: always say no or decline if and when

VM Player suggests downloading or installing
VMware Tools

• Secondly, you may also notice the traditional

boot up count down (9,8,7,6,…) giving you 10
seconds to hit a key to get the loader prompt.
• It may get to 1, then seem to hang and not boot.
This is a quirk and it will eventually continue.
• However, you can click into the console window
and hit [Enter] to speed it up, or wait a bit longer

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Another important aspect of VM Player to Understand
How to direct your cursor, or user input control, between the VM console and your greater Windows system

NOTE: In the early stages, this can be confusing. If

you’ve clicked into the console window and you’d
like to do something else (like google something or
look at local files) you need to press Ctrl+Alt to free
your user input focus from the VM console.

If your cursor seems to be missing, it is probably just

assigned into the console window. Just press
Ctrl+Alt at the same time and then wiggle your
mouse. It will be back to your Windows system.

But be prepared to click back into the VM console

because soon you will need to press Ctrl-C to get
the ONTAP Boot Menu to zero disks.

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Click into the VM console window and be ready to type Ctrl-C
Press it a few times to be sure and look for the “Boot Menu will be available” message

NOTE-1: At this point, the simulator is like a regular

ONTAP 9 system shipped from the factory except
it’s disks were not zeroed. So we do that as the first
step. It will warn you and ask if you are sure. Answer
yes to both questions. Expect about 5-10 minutes to
zero. If your laptop uses a flash drive, faster yet.

NOTE-2: If you miss the chance to enter Ctrl-C at

the right time, let it go and it will reboot once, maybe
twice. Once you get it, choose option 4

NOTE-3: If you get the lower yellow 3-choice menu

about VMware Tools as seen here, click [Never
Remind Me] … because you DO NOT want to install
VMware Tools on your ONTAP simulator

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As usual, you’ll be asked if you are sure (twice)
System reboots with “Wipe filer procedure requested” and expect series of dots indicating disk zeroing progress

NOTE: Pick up here

For those following the

macOS instructions at the end
of this slide deck, this is
where you should pick up and
continue with the rest of the
ONTAP Simulator Setup.

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After disk zeroing completes, you’ll reboot into Cluster Setup
This is where things begin to look and act exactly like an actual install and setup. Suggested answers follow.

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Some suggested Cluster Setup answers
For your first cluster, we’re recommending a single-node cluster

§ Create new or join an existing cluster? create

§ Do you intend … single node cluster? yes
§ Cluster administrator’s password? netapp123 (or your favorite secret password)
§ Enter the cluster name? hq-stor (or whatever you choose to name your cluster)
§ Enter the cluster base license key: SMKQROWJNQYQSDAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
§ Additional license key []? [Enter] we’ll do that later From the file: Cmode_license_9.0.txt
Cluster Base License (Serial Number 1-80-000008)
================================================
NOTES:
You use the cluster base license when setting up the first simulator in a
• It is tricky to cut and paste from Windows into the VM cluster. (NOTE: spaces every 3-characters added for readabilty)
Player console. As such, the cluster base license key is
shown to the right in 3-char chunks to made it easier to Cluster Base license = SMK QRO WJN QYQ SDA AAA AAA AAA AAA A
read and enter. You can enter it in lower case if helpful.

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Some suggested Cluster Setup answers (continued)
This is where the VM Player subnet assigned for the VMnet8 adapter comes into play (replace 23 with your #)

§ Enter the cluster management interface port [e0a]: e0c (could be a,b, or d, but c is more typical)
§ Enter the cluster management interface IP address: 192.168.23.10
§ Enter the cluster management interface netmask: 255.255.255.0
§ Enter the cluster management interface default gateway: 192.168.23.2

§ Enter the DNS domain names: acme.com

§ Enter the name server IP addresses: 192.168.23.1

§ Where is is the controller located: In my laptop

§ Enter the node management interface port []: e0c (use same as cluster_mgmt)
§ Enter the node management interface interface IP address: 192.168.23.11
§ Enter the node management interface netmask: 255.255.255.0
§ Enter the node management interface default gateway: 192.168.23.2

§ Enter the system config backup destination … (press enter to skip): [Enter]
§ Pause message for autosupport information is displayed: [Enter]

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Your cluster is created and ready for access
You can access it via the VM Player console, ssh, or System Manager (and eventually NFS, CIFS, iSCSI)

NOTE-1: You probably want to avoid using the VM Player console

for routine access and experimenting for a number of reasons:
- You can’t resize it in any useful way
- There are no scroll bars and no way to look at previous output
- The continual hassle of having to type Ctrl-Atl to get out of it

NOTE-2: Come back to the VM Player console if you have

networking problems and cannot access the cluster for some
reason. Using the console is equivalent of being connected to the
node’s serial port.

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Using Putty and/or System Manager
Using the Cluster Management IP Address, connect via ssh or https (Chrome may work when IE, Edge won’t)

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 Immediate First Steps
for your Cluster
Steps you should do now before proceeding and before you forget

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Immediate First Steps for your Cluster
These items are best practices for keeping a simulator in good health and easy to access

§ Perform networking tests to confirm connectivity

§ Expand your root aggregate and root volume
§ Put your cluster addresses in your host’s /etc/hosts file
§ Enter licenses for the simulator
§ Miscellaneous useful setup
§ Learn to suspend and resume your cluster

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Perform networking tests to confirm your cluster access
Your host Windows system should be able to ping your cluster’s cluster and node mgmt addresses

Common Problems
1. LIF has migrated away from e0c to
e0a which, by default, is meant for
cluster interconnect:
Solution: net int revert *

2. The subnet in use by VM Player is not

what you think it is:
Solution: compare ’net int show’ and
‘ipconfig’ for VMnet8

3. VM Player needs Network Adpater 3

and 4 (aka: e0c, e0d) set to Custom ->
Specific Virtual network -> VMnet8
(NAT)
Solution: see next slide

NOTE: Be aware this guide mixes examples of the

VMnet8 on different subnets (192.168.80.0 here, 23.0
and 17.0 earlier, etc)

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Perform networking tests (Possible solution for #3 on prior slide)
Your host Windows system should be able to ping your cluster’s cluster and node mgmt addresses

Forcing VMnet8 virtual network

• Use VM Player’s dropdown, select
Manage -> Virtual Machine
Settings

• Click on adapter 3 (then 4) and select

1 (o) Custom: Specific virtual
network
2
• Scroll through the list and select
VMnet8 (NAT)

• Until both 3 and 4 look as shown

• Click [OK] and then go back and re-

run your ping tests

• If still problems, check for the

problem #1 and #2 solutions on prior
slides)

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Expand your root aggregate and root volume
It starts at 3 disks, add 2 more to make a total of 5 disks (this is a simulator specific recommendation)

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Expand your root aggregate and root volume (continued)
Now expand your root volume (vol0) to take advantages of the new space

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Expand your root aggregate and root volume (continued)
In addition, turn off vol0 snapshots except one nightly (a recommendation)

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Put your cluster in your local system’s hosts file
This will let you refer to it by name(s) rather than IP addresses

For Windows 10 (Win7 similar)

• Press the Windows key

• Type Notepad in the search field

2
Right-Click Notepad
• In the search results, right-click Notepad and
and select select Run as administrator !!!
Run as Administrator
• From Notepad, open the following file:
c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts

• NOTE: To see the hosts file above you will need

to set the file browser dialogue box to look at All
Files (*.*) not just Text Documents (*.txt) files

• Make the necessary changes to the file (see

3 next slide)

• Click File > Save to save your changes.

1

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Put your cluster in your local system’s hosts file (continued)
This will let you refer to it by name(s) rather than IP addresses

What should you add?

• Cluster Mgmt address

• Node mgmt address

• While we’re here, add some SVM or Vserver

addresses, even though we haven’t created
them in ONTAP yet.

• After you close and save, open a cmd or

PowerShell window and confirm you can now
ping the cluster and node by these names

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Enter licenses into your simulator
Copy and paste the below text into a terminal emulator session (ie; putty) at the ::> prompt

license add YVUCRRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA # CIFS

license add WKQGSRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA # FCP
license add SOHOURRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA # FlexClone
license add YBSOYRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA # Insight_Balance
license add KQSRRRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA # iSCSI
license add MBXNQRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA # NFS
license add QDDSVRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA # SnapLock
license add MHUZXRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA # SnapLock_Enterprise
license add CYAHWRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA # SnapManager
license add GUJZTRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA # SnapMirror NOTES:
license add OSYVWRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA # SnapProtect
license add UZLKTRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA # SnapRestore • These are the actual simulator licenses for the
license add EJFDVRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA # SnapVault VM Player flavor of the ONTAP 9 (GA) simulator

• If you are in the future and installing a future

version of ONTAP, be sure to check and use the
licenses that come with that simulator as they
may change.

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Enter licenses into your simulator (continued)
Or copy and paste the below text into the System Manager Add Licenses window

YVUCRRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA,
WKQGSRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA,
SOHOURRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA,
YBSOYRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA,
KQSRRRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA,
MBXNQRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA,
QDDSVRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA,
MHUZXRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA,
CYAHWRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA,
GUJZTRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA, NOTES:
OSYVWRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA,
UZLKTRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA, • These are the actual simulator licenses for the
EJFDVRRRYVHXCFABGAAAAAAAAAAA VM Player flavor of the ONTAP 9 (GA) simulator
which you can cut/paste into System Manager

• If you are in the future and installing a future

version, be sure to check and use the licenses
that come with that simulator. They may change

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Enter licenses into your simulator (continued)
System Manager in ONTAP 9 has a top-level Quick Link for entering licenses

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Miscellaneous setup steps
CLI Timeout, Timezone, and Date-time NOTES:

• Setting the timeout to zero disables

These Cluster Shell commands: the automatic logout of ssh cli
session which can be annoying
::> timeout modify –timeout 0
• Set the timezone to your local
timezone to avoid confusion

::> timezone US/Central • Set the date and time.

::> date 201611101044 • As you continue to use your

simulator, keep an occasional eye
on the date and time.

This eliminates some alerts that might be reported • If you suspend and resume the
simulator you may find it is behind
::> set advanced and you’ll need to set the date and
::> net options switchless-cluster modify –enabled true time again.

::> set admin • You can tell ONTAP to access an

external NTP server which may or
may no work well for you.

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Learn to suspend and resume your Cluster
Suspend Guest is preferred to Shut Down Guest, Resume and Power On are the same thing

NOTES:

• When you want to put the simulator

away completely use the Suspend
Guest option and then close the VM
Player application

• If you just close the VM Player app

it will ask if your want to Suspend or
shutdown. Suspend is the default so
just hit enter and the simulator
suspends and VM Player exists

• The next time you launch VM

Player, highlight your simulater and
click Play (which for a suspended
VM performs a quick resume)

• Check ONTAP’s date/time after a

suspend/resume operation

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 Polishing Steps
for your Cluster
Steps you can perform now or later to finish polishing your simulator environment

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Create data aggregates
Planning thoughts and ideas

§ Keep one spare drive (even though I’ve never seen a simulator drive fail in 10 years)

§ Unless you’ve decided to go the 2-node cluster route (not covered in these slides), do a disk
assign –all to bring the 14 unassigned drives into your <node>-01 configuration for a total of 28
drives. This leaves 27 drives (minus the 1 spare)
§ Assuming you’ve grown your aggr0 to 5-drives (recommended, see early step) that leaves you 22
drives for data aggregates.
§ I recommend creating at least two data aggregates for training purposes (volume move, simulate
multiple drive types such as SAS, SATA, SSD)
§ You might want to leave enough spares drives that you can be ready to do aggregate creation
experiments. Also, these are your aggregates so also pretty easy to delete.
§ A possible scenario (pick your own naming convention):
§ Aggregate name: hq_n01_sas01 with 8 drives
§ Aggregate name: hq_n01_sata01 with 8 drives
§ Aggregate name: hq_n01_ssd01 with 6 drives

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Take ownership of all disks
Viewing the current ownership and then disk assign -all

NOTES:

• Notice that the Disk Type reports as

FCAL. We are in pretend land here
so it doesn’t really matter but keep
this in mind.

• Notice that there are 28 disks and

only 14 of them are assigned to
<node>-01.

• Notice that aggregate aggr0 only

has 3 drives at this point. As
described in the earlier ‘Immediate
First Steps’ section it is still
recommended to make this 5, these
screen shots were just taken before
that occurred.

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Take ownership of all disks (continued)
Assign ownership of unassigned disks to <node>-01 and confirm with another disk show

NOTES:

• Notice that aggregate aggr0 only

has 3 drives at this point. As
described in the earlier ‘Immediate
First Steps’ section it is still
recommended to make this 5, these
screen shots were just taken before
that occurred.

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Create data aggregates (continued)
Example showing creating an aggregate with System Manager

NOTES:

• Notice that the only choice in the

Disk Type dropdown is FCAL.
Again, this is pretend land and we
are making believe this is an
aggregate of 8 SAS drives simply
by the name convention

• If you are really motivated to

maximize space available to
provision volumes into, you might
decide to pick RAID4. However,
there could be (are) NetApp
software tools and products that will
not allow placing volumes into non
RAID_DP aggregates, so be aware.

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Create data aggregates (continued)
Here are a set of commands to create three aggregates if you prefer CLI for this

Example Cluster Shell Aggregate Create Commands:

aggregate create hq_n01_sas01 -raidtype raid_dp -maxraidsize 14 -diskcount 8

aggregate create hq_n01_sata01 -raidtype raid_dp -maxraidsize 14 -diskcount 8
aggregate create hq_n01_ssd01 -raidtype raid_dp -maxraidsize 14 -diskcount 6

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Create data aggregates (continued)
Simulator with 3 data aggregates and aggr0 renamed to aggr0_hq_n01

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Create your first SVM – Some planning considerations
You can now create data Storage Virtual Machines mixing CIFS, NFS and iSCSI

§ If you are on a Windows system:

§ CIFS is the easy protocol to access your cluster
§ NFS for Windows is available but it may not be built into your version and flavor of Windows
§ iSCSI for Windows is either built in or available to add (using the iSCSI Initiator Control Panel)

§ If you are on a macOS system:

§ Both CIFS and NFS clients are built in, iSCSI Initiators are available

§ In either case, you probably do not have an Active Directory server in your control, hence:
§ You must setup and use CIFS in what is called Workgroup mode (as opposed to AD mode)
§ ONTAP 9 supports workgroup mode, but the System Manager SVM Setup Wizard presumes AD mode
§ Hence:
§ You can not use System Manager’s GUI to create an SVM for CIFS in Workgroup mode (in ONTAP 9.0)
§ The following slide provides the ClusterShell template commands to create an SVM with Workgroup CIFS

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Create your first SVM (for Workgroup CIFS)
Use these commands as a template to create a Workgroup CIFS SVM

Using ClusterShell via ssh (putty, etc) to create the SVM, LIF, etc:
cluster::> vserver create -vserver hq-vs0 -aggregate hq_n01_sas01 -rootvolume hqvs0_root
-rootvolume-security-style ntfs -language en_US.UTF-8

cluster::> network interface create -vserver hq-vs0 -lif hq-vs0_lif1 -role data –data -protocol cifs
-home-node hq-stor-01 -home-port e0c -address 192.168.17.20 -netmask 255.255.255.0

cluster::> vserver cifs create -vserver hq-vs0 -cifs-server hq-vs0 -workgroup wg

cluster::> volume create -vserver hq-vs0 -volume myvol -aggregate hq_n01_sas01 -size 1gb -junction-path /myvol

cluster::> cifs share create -vserver hq-vs0 -share-name myshare -path /myvol NOTES:

• The local-user create command

cluster::> local-user create -vserver hq-vs0 -user-name johnsmith prompts you for a password to
create for this new user and that
password must meet more
NOTES: requirements than normal.
1) You probably need to edit the items in red to match your environment • For example, If you’re trying to use
2) This guide mixes examples of the VMnet8 on different subnets (192.168.23.0, 17.0, .80.0, etc.) netapp123, use Netapp123

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Access your first SVM (for Workgroup CIFS)
Then to access the share, in a PowerShell or cmd window
Drive Letter
(* auto selects) \\server\share Server\user (* prompts for pswd) Keep around

NOTES:

• You can certainly use the Windows

File Explorer for your version of
Windows but there are lots of
differences between Windows 7, 8,
and 10 and different environments

• This syntax should work across all

versions of Windows and setups

• Type: net use

To see all mapped shares

• Type: net use /?

For help on the exact syntax
breakdown of the command

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Create your first SVM (Workgroup CIFS) (continued)
CLI View of interfaces and vservers after setting up Workgroup CIFS SVM

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Create your first SVM (Workgroup CIFS) (continued)
System Manager view of SVM and volume after setting up Workgroup CIFS SVM

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 Additional Resources and Issues
This section includes:
• Links to other resources and documentation
• Common issues you may encounter and resolutions

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Resources

§ VMware Workstation Player (referred to within this guide as VM Player)

§ Enabling VT technology on your laptop – http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003944
§ Download – http://downloads.vmware.com (scroll down to VMware Workstation Player)
§ Documentation – http://pubs.vmware.com/player-12-windows/index.jsp
§ Support - https://www.vmware.com/support/player.html

§ NetApp ONTAP Simulator

§ Download – http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/simulator
§ Documentation – same as above
§ Support - http://community.netapp.com/t5/Simulator-Discussions/bd-p/simulator-discussions
§ PowerShell Toolkit: http://mysupport.netapp.com/tools/info/ECMLP2310788I.html?productID=6192

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ISSUE: I rebooted my cluster node and still can’t access it
Cluster reboot time can be longer than expected

§ Watch the console (VM Player window) and wait until you see the login: prompt. If you already see that, open a cmd
or PowerShell window and try to ping both:
§ Cluster mgmt LIF IP address
§ Node mgmt LIF IP address

§ If you can ping the node mgmt LIF but not the cluster mgmt LIF, the most likely cause is the cluster is still
synchronizing the cluster ring database and taking longer than expected.

§ Confirm this by ssh’ing into the node mgmt LIF and do a net int show command. If the only LIF you see is the node
mgmt LIF, this is the issue.
§ Monitor the process with these commands: net int show , cluster show , stat system show (if high cpu% it’s still
sync’ing) and/or set advanced;cluster ring show
§ On a slow system this has been seen to take over 20 minutes. This is one reason it’s better to Suspend and
Resume your cluster.

§ While sometimes a reboot cannot be avoided, the only time you must halt your cluster is when you need to adjust
VM Player options or when you want to save, copy or share the VM in \Documents\Virtual Machines

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ISSUE: Want to reduce simulator memory from 5GB to 3GB
If you would like more breathing room or want to try bring up two clusters, you might want this

§ Halt the simulator

§ Reduce the VMs RAM (VM Player -> Manage -> Virtual machine Settings -> Change to 3072

§ Power on the simulator, stopping at the VLOADER> (i.e; press space bar at count down)

§ At the VLOADER prompt:

VLOADER> setenv bootarg.init.low_mem 512
VLOADER> setenv bootarg.vnvram.size 64
VLOADER> setenv nvram_discard true
VLOADER> boot_ontap

§ ONTAP should boot up normally

§ cluster::> run local –command sysconfig # should confirm memory setting

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ISSUE: If your root volume fills up over time
If even after you increase aggr0 and vol0 size you still fill up the root volume

§ You have to have enabled the diag account on the cluster (see Tech Note elsewhere)

§ At Cluster Shell prompt:

cluster::> set diagnostic

cluster::*> systemshell
login: diag
Password: <whatever password you set on diag account>
node% cd /mroot/etc/log/mlog
node% rm *.log.* # this removes just older archive log files
node% exit
cluster::*> set admin

cluster::> vol show vol0 # to see if space reclaimed. If not, delete existing snapshots
cluster::> run local
node-01> snap delete vol0 nightly.0
node-01> snap list vol0 # there should be none now, delete others if more exist
node-01> exit

cluster::> vol show vol0 # should see space reclaimed (thou sometimes it takes a few minutes)

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ISSUE: Root volume can become inconsistent
If you see this message on console or upon logging in

§ Halt the node (cluster ::> halt) and wait until fully down

§ Press any key to begin the boot up process

§ As it begins booting, hit any key other than Enter, ex: Space bar, to stop at VLOADER prompt. Enter:
VLOADER> unsetenv bootarg.init.boot_recovery
VLOADER> boot_ontap

§ System will boot up but will take awhile to fully rebuild and recover

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ISSUE: VMware Tools Warnings bother but want date/time sync’ed
Certain Hypervisors (VM Player) continually suggest installing VMware Tools

§ Halt the node (::> halt) and wait until fully down

§ Press any key to begin the boot up process

§ As it begins booting, hit any key other than Enter, for example: hit
the space bar, to stop at VLOADER prompt. Enter:
VLOADER> setenv bootarg.vm.run_vmtools false
VLOADER> boot_ontap

§ System will boot up normally

§ Running this way, the ONTAP guest will no longer even attempt to sync it’s time with the host. As such, you may want
to have ONTAP sync with an external Network Time Protocol (NTP) server.

§ This command will establish pool.ntp.org as a time server for your simulator

cluster::> cluster time-service ntp server create pool.ntp.org

§ After a few minutes you should see (using the date command) that the date/time sync up correctly

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ISSUE: Simulator performance is poor during certain periods
Can occur at midnight, 1am, 10am, etc (based on 8hour, hourly and weekly job schedule cron settings)

§ There is a default ONTAP System Configuration Backup process that can slow down the simulator. Take these
steps to reduce when these occur and how many copies are retained.
§ At Cluster Shell prompt:

cluster::> set advanced

cluster::*> job schedule cron modify 8hour -hour 18 -minute 15 # Once at 6:15pm (up to you)

Warning: Schedule in use by 0 volume Snapshot policy entries, 0 SnapMirror entries, 0 antivirus on-demand
entries, 0 SIS policy entries, and 1 configuration backup settings. This change will affect the schedule
of all referenced entities. Continue with modify? {y|n}: y

cluster::*> system configuration backup setting modify -numbackups1 1 # 1st (8hour) to 1 copy
cluster::*> system configuration backup setting modify -numbackups2 1 # 2nd (daily) to 1 copy
cluster::*> system configuration backup setting modify -numbackups3 1 # 3rd (weekly) to 1 copy

cluster::*> set admin

cluster::>

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 macOS Installation, Setup and Hints
This section contains:
• macOS Installation and Setup (the steps which are different)
• macOS and Fusion Hints

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ONTAP Simulator: macOS Setup Overview

§ The key process differences are:

§ You will download and install the VMware Fusion application

Instead of VMware Workstation Player (VM Player)

§ You will use Fusion to Import and Start Up the ONTAP Simulator
Versus VM Player functions to Open and Play the same simulator

§ Fusion is a paid-for tool versus VM Player which is a free tool

Downloading gives you a 30-day free trial. Regular license is ~$79

§ This section will cover the early process differences and then end by directing the reader
back to a common point in the VM Player ONTAP process to continue on

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macOS VMware Fusion Prerequisites

§ System Requirements
§ Any 64-bit capable Intel® Mac® (Compatible with Core 2 Duo, Xeon, i3, i5, i7 processors or better)
§ Minimum 4GB of RAM (though with ONTAP 9 you’ll need a 8GB system)
§ 750MB free disk space for VMware Fusion and at least 5GB for each virtual machine

§ Host Operating Systems

§ Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
§ Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite
§ Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan
§ macOS 10.12 Sierra

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Download Fusion from VMware.com
Find All Downloads -> look for VMware Fusion -> then click the Try choice

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Download Fusion from VMware.com (continued)

NOTES:

• You’ll be presented with the choice

of regular or Pro.

• The same thing gets downloaded in

either case so pick either.

• Later, if you purchase a license, the

regular should be enough but
review the comparison online.

• The download usually goes into

your Downloads folder

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After downloading, Install Fusion
NOTES: Your desktop may be
configured differently, but the basic
install steps are:

1. When you select a download

(regular or Pro) you’ll get the .dmg
disk image file
(shown here on the desktop but likely in
4 your Downloads folder)
2 3 2. Double-click the .dmg file to open
which shows the contents of the
VMware Fusion disk

3. Double-click the VMware Fusion

disk which shows the icon for the
VMware Fusion.app

4. Click on and drag the .app to your

Mac’s Applications folder

5. On the desktop pictured, the

Applications folder is in the dock so
5 it can be dragged to that dock icon

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Start Fusion
NOTES:

• Verify that you have the

administrator password for you
Mac

• In the Applications folder, double-

click VMware Fusion

• The Virtual Machine Library

windows appears.

• If it doesn’t appear, select from top

of screen menu Windows ->
Virtual Machine Library (or Shift-
Command-L)

• (Optional) To Save Fusion in the

Dock, right-click the Fusion icon in
the dock and select Options ->
Keep in Dock

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Adding ONTAP Simulator to Fusion
NOTES:

• Following the steps beginning on

page 18 of Simulate ONTA9.0
Installation and Setup Guide (.pdf)

• From the Fusion menu bar click

File -> Import

• In the Choose an Existing Virtual

Machine window click [Choose
1 File…]
4
• Then browse to and choose the
.ova file downloaded previously

• Click [Continue]

3
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Adding ONTAP Simulator to Fusion (continued)
NOTES:
1 • Fusion will present a window
allowing you to name to VM you
2 are creating and select a folder to
create it in

• For the VM name, select

something that matches your
planned cluster name with an
added -01 to represent that this is
the first (and maybe only) node of
the cluster
( lb-stor-01 shown here )

• You can leave the folder as Virtual

Machines which is a new folder in
your Mac user Documents folder
( a good default to leave it at )

3
• Click [Save]

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Adding ONTAP Simulator to Fusion (continued)
NOTES:

• The VM is now created.

• You can optionally look at

[Customize Settings] but do not
change anything at this point.

• Click [Finish]

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Adding ONTAP Simulator to Fusion (continued)
NOTES:

• Your Virtual Machine Library should

now look something like this.

• Before you Start Up the virtual

machine there is one more step: to
determine what subnet number
Fusion has generated for the
VMnet8 subnet inside your Mac.

• This is similar to the Windows VM

Player setup (see prior slides)
where we used ipconfig to
determine the subnet. Here we’ll
use ifconfig as shown on next slide

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Determining the VMnet8 Subnet

NOTES: to open a terminal window NOTES: to obtain the VMnet8 subnet

• Method #1: • Open a Terminal Window

• Press F4
• Click Other folder icon • Type ifconfig vmnet8
• Click the Terminal app icon • Write down to record the IP address after inet which is your
Mac’s IP address in the new VMnet8 subnet which Fusion
• Method #2: created.
• Click the icon in upper So in the case shown, the VMnet8 subnet is 192.168.126.0 and
right of the top menu bar 192.168.126.1 is your Mac’s IP address in that subnet
• Type terminal and hit enter
• The mask is 255.255.255.0 (the equivalent to the hex 0xffffff00
shown above)

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Click Startup and you’ll begin to see ONTAP Booting
This is similar to powering on a FAS controller for the first time NOTES:

1 • Back on your Virtual Machine

Library window, with your ONTAP
simulator VM highlighted, click the
arrow or Start Up icon.

• A new console window will open

and begin showing the simulator
booting up

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Another important aspect of Fusion to Understand
How to direct your cursor, or user input control, between the Fusion console and your Mac

NOTE: In the early stages, this can be confusing. If

you’ve clicked into the console window and you’d
like to do something else (such as to google
something or look at local files) you need to press
Ctrl+Command to free your user input focus from
the Fusion console.

If your cursor seems to be missing, it is probably just

assigned into the console window. Just press
Ctrl+Command at the same time and then wiggle
your mouse. It will be back to your Windows system.

But be prepared to click back into the VM console

because soon you will need to press Ctrl-C to get
the ONTAP Boot Menu to zero disks.

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Click into the VM console window and be ready to type Ctrl-C
Press it a few times to be sure and look for the “Boot Menu will be available” message

NOTE-1: If you miss the chance to enter Ctrl-C at

the right time, let it go and it will reboot once, maybe
twice. Once you get it, choose option 4

NOTE-2: At this point, the simulator is like a regular

ONTAP 9 system shipped from the factory except
it’s disks were not zeroed. So we do that as the first
step. It will warn you and ask if you are sure. Answer
yes to both. Expect approximately 5-10 minutes to
zero. If your laptop uses a flash drive, faster yet.

NOTE-3: From this point forward, these macOS

setup directions merge back into the prior steps
for Windows and VM Player. Continue back at
approximately slide 32 or look for the
‘Pick up here’ NOTE and the Apple logo.

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HINT: Make Suspending the Simulator the default
To avoid ONTAP shutdown and reboots, change Preferences
NOTES:

• In Fusion menus, select VMware

Fusion and Preferences …

• In the General tab, the first option

controls what happens when you close
a VM console window.

• Select Suspend the virtual Machine

• The [_] Confirm before closing

choice is up to you

• On an HDD based Mac, the suspend

and restore times might be 60 to 90
seconds

• On an SSD based Mac, the suspend

and restore times might be 10 to 20
seconds

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HINT: Looking at or changing a VM Settings
While halted and down, you can edit a VMs Settings NOTES:

• If you click Settings you’ll get the

VM Settings window.

• Processors & Memory let you

control the amount of memory
provided to the VM.

• Network Adapter 1,2,3,4 are e0a

e0b, e0c, e0d respectively

• If you edit a Network Adapter, you

should normally select ‘Private to
my Mac’ as ‘configured to use’
which is the VMnet8 local subnet.

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HINT: ssh is built into macOS
You can open a Terminal windows and ssh directly into the cluster

NOTES: to open a Terminal window

• Method #1:
• Press F4
• Click Other folder icon
• Click the Terminal app icon
• Method #2:
• Click the icon in upper
right of the top menu bar
• Type terminal and hit enter

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HINT: To edit the /etc/hosts on your macOS system
Using terminal windows and vi editor is shown below

NOTES:

• If you have a Unix background and

prefer the vi editor, enter:
sudo vi /etc/hosts

• Don’t use vi if you are now experienced

with it. Type <esc>q! to get out without
making any edits.

• Another editor that is a little easier to

pickup is nano, enter:
sudo nano /etc/hosts

• After editing, display new file with:

sudo cat /etc/hosts

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HINT: Mounting a CIFS share on macOS
Use the Finder menu Go -> Connect to Server ...
NOTES: Fill out Server Address

• smb://
1 indicates CIFS

• hq-vs0\johnsmith
is server-name\user-name

• @
separates user and share

• hq-vs0/myshare
is server-name/share-name

• After clicking Connect it prompts for

password

• HINT: Once you get ‘myshare’ on the

2 3 desktop, right-click it and Make Alias
so that you can quickly access later

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