ONTAP Simulator keeps crashing

[still fable]

I really don't know what's happening, would install simulator on my workstation and once I suspend the VMs for a day or 2, it crashes, I have tried several ONTAP Simulator versions. Anyone experienced same or know a quick fix?

[dull plinth]

I have seen this happen in the past too. Usually it is better to just shut down the simulator properly

[still fable]

Oh I get it. I was thinking I was doing something wrong.

[exotic swallow]

Are you running out of space on your root aggregates? I've had issues with our simulators crashing because of that. Check out this thread for info on fixing that:
https://discord.com/channels/855068651522490400/1195314764444864633

[bold geode]

This ^^^. It's a huge problem with vSIMs.

[dull plinth]

using vdisks makes the simulator much more usable. too bad it's pretty tricky to set up

[still fable]

Are you talking about making new disk from systemshell

[still fable]

Thanks Jim. No. The root aggregate is the first thing I expand.

The major error has been that of management gateway server restarted , trying to reconnect.

The alarming thing is, I'm preparing the lab for my Master's project defense, I am simulating the performance of running databases workloads using iscsi protocol. I have rebuilt the storage like 4 times in 2 weeks

[dull plinth]

no. you can (with a bit of tweaking) directly attach vmdk files as disks to the simulator and have ONTAP use them. That way they won't fill up your root volume