Scott Lowe covered this over two years ago but I thought I’d revisit just in case there is someone out there looking to SSH from their ESX hosts directly into the NetApp OnTAP operating system.
By default, ESX only supports AES encryption, OnTAP requires 3DES encryption. This means we’ll need to make a modification to the SSH configuration on ESX to have it support 3DES. If your asking why would I want this, sometimes it comes in real handy to run OnTAP commands direct from your ESX command-line. For example, if you want to see how much space an aggregate has left you can simply type; ssh fas1 df -Ag aggr0 — or if you want to grow the size of your LUN; ssh fas1 lun resize /vol/vol#/qtree/lun# 500g — Anyways, the possibilities are endless.
Posted under ESX 3.5 Tips, ESXi 3.5 Tips, NetApp
This post was written by Rick Scherer on January 16, 2009
