Simulate ONTAP – how to set up your own UAT environment
NetApp's Simulate ONTAP is a virtual simulator for running ONTAP software on Windows or Mac. Users can download it from NetApp's support site with customer access, create VMs for each node using VMware, and customize serial and system ID settings. The setup involves creating a cluster and joining nodes, managing disk snapshots to save space, setting up management interfaces, and installing licenses. The process is user-friendly, mostly conducted via the ONTAP CLI, with specific steps for modifying the system's environment variables and configurations.