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Revision History
Table 1 shows the revision history of this document.
Table 1. Revision history
Revision

Date

Description

A01

July 28, 2014

Initial release.

Introduction
Scope of document

This document provides the necessary information to install and run the
4. 1 Simulator on your PC or laptop. Please refer to the RecoverPoint
Administration Guide for more detailed information relating to the
features, functionality and configuration.
Intended audience

This document is intended for EMC employees, channel partners, service

providers or customers.
Note: The Simulator is not an officially supported product. Therefore, for
issues relating to REST, refer to the RecoverPoint Developers Community
on the EMC Community Network. For general issues, refer to the
RecoverPoint Community on the EMC Community Network.
Related documents

The following documents are available for download from EMC Online
Support and can be used as reference.
EMC RecoverPoint Release Notes
EMC RecoverPoint Simulator Technical Notes

Pre-requisites
EMC RecoverPoint Installation and Deployment Product Guide
EMC RecoverPoint Deployment Manager Release Notes
EMC RecoverPoint Administration Guide

Pre-requisites
The RecoverPoint Simulator can be downloaded as a single zip file from
the EMC Online Support website from the RecoverPoint Support Tools
location. These files contain a pre-built VMware virtual machine running
the RecoverPoint 4. 1 (d.210) code.
Before you begin, ensure you have the following:

Microsoft Windows XP/ Windows 7 or Apple OSX

VMware - Player, Workstation, Fusion or Server
IE, Chrome, Safari or FireFox
Adobe Flash Player 10.2 or higher
4GB of RAM
5GB of disk space
Winzip 9.0 or later to extract the files from the Simulator zip file

Note: EMC cannot guarantee the simulator will work on all combinations of
operating system, VMware software and browser.

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Loading the RecoverPoint Simulator

Loading the RecoverPoint Simulator

To load the simulator:
1. Start your chosen VMware pre-requisite software and then launch
the simulator by opening the RP_Ferdinand_Sim_D.210.vmx file.
This will initiate the 4. 1 virtual machine.
Note: The virtual machine is currently set to use 4GB of
memory. Ensure you have sufficient amount of memory before
initiating the virtual machine.
Note: Ignore the VMtools update message.
2. Once the virtual machine has completed booting wait 5 minutes to
allow the configuration scripts to complete the underlying set-up
of the environment.
3. At the login prompt, enter the username: ip, and the password:
ip. This will not log you into the simulator but will display the IP
address needed to connect to the simulator. Look for the text,
Simulator IP is, and note the IP address display after this text.
Note: The first time you start the simulator, you may see a notice
that the configuration has changed and you may be asked whether
you copied a new virtual machine or moved an existing virtual
machine. Select copied (default) and not moved.
4. Click Ctrl+Alt to release the cursor in order to move it back to
your operating system.
5. Open your browser windows and enter the following URL
address :
https://ip_address_from_step3/
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Loading the RecoverPoint Simulator

6. Accept the certificate warning.

7. Once the RecoverPoint UI login screen is displayed enter the
username: admin, and the password: admin to log in.
8. You are now ready to use the simulator.

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Appendix A Exceptions

Appendix A Exceptions
The following exceptions apply to RecoverPoint when using the
simulator:
1. Windows platform support is x86 or x64 only.
2. The simulator is not supported using an ESX/ESXi server.
3. boxmgmt is not supported.
4. Some bugs may exist in this version that will not be remedied
until the next release of the simulator.

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Appendix B Troubleshooting

Appendix B Troubleshooting
Use this section to troubleshoot simulator issues.
Unabletoconnectto
simulator(Servererrorupon
loggingin)

Thedefaultconfigurationis
HOSTONLYifyouareusing
aVPNthenyoumustshutit
downorthesimulatorwont
work.

Unabletorestartsimulator
whencomputercomesback

a.ShutdowntheVMwareimagebefore
yourcomputerenterssleepmode.

fromSleepmode

computerenterssleepmode.
b.Afteryourestarttheimage,waitfor
30secondsto1minutebeforeyoulog
intotheadminconsole.
c.Theconsistencygroupsmighttake
another30secto1minutetoreinitialize
aftertheGUIlaunches.

Simulatordoesnotworkwhen
connectedtoahomewireless
LAN

YourhomeLANmaybegivingyouan
IPaddressthatconflictswiththe
simulatorsubnetof192.168.x.x.Adjust
yourhomeLANasrequired.

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Appendix B Troubleshooting

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