Why can't I browse to FilerView to the same Linux system running the simulator?

You can only access the simulator from the same host if you have 2 network cards in your Linux machine that are connected to the same subnet. This is due to the way the simulator interacts with the network stack of the Linux host. VMware makes this easy as you can just add another virtual adapter into the same virtual switch and configure it in Linux.

If you satify the above requirement then check the following:

1. In your Linux host check your routing table in the Linux host to see which network card gets your default route. E.g. in this example it tells us that there are two network cards in the same 192.168.121.0 network (lines 1 and 2) named eth0 and eth1. The default last line shows that our default route will be eth0.

     [root@localhost /root]# route
     Kernel IP routing table
     Destination   Gateway       Genmask       Flags Metric Ref  Use Iface
     192.168.121.0 *             255.255.255.0 U     0      0      0 eth0
     192.168.121.0 *             255.255.255.0 U     0      0      0 eth1
     127.0.0.1     *             255.0.0.0     U     0      0      0 lo
     default       192.168.121.2 0.0.0.0       UG    0      0      0 eth0

2. You must put the simulator on the network interface that isn't the default route. If you put it on the default route you won't have any communication with the simulator. In our example we will use eth1.
   
3. Run the setup.sh script and when asked enter the correct network interface you’d like to use.
   
4. Restart your simulator. You should still be able to access it from the Linux host. Test with a ping before attempting to use FilerView. You’ll also be able to telnet, mount etc. to the simulators IP address.

If this hasn't resolved the problem check the interface that the simulator thinks it's running on using the following procedure in the FAQ section. Which network adapter is the simulator using.