
I will ping my laptop from the Nexus switch – both my laptop and management interface are addressed in the same /24 subnet NEX-9K-1# ping 10.10.10.100 vrf management Next ensure you have a route to your TFTP server In my case I have connected my laptop directly to the management port Second step is to connect the management interface (or any 元 interface on your switch) to a network where you can see your TFTP server

Select the specific for your switch and download – (you will require a service contract) Cisco Nexus 9000 software upgrade using TFTPįirst step is to download the image from įor the Nexus 9000 software download the latest images can be found here This tutorial is being performed on a bench with two new switches right out the box. If I am performing a software upgrade on a live network I always like to do it within a maintenance window. However for this tutorial we will not be covering that.

On Unix systems, you can use theĪttributes. We highly recommend that you remove the world-writable attribute on The transfer will fail if this file isn’t world writable. Since IOS images are quite a bit larger than configurationġ.2, you have to watch out for the file permissions on your The only real difference is the size of the file involved, The procedure to copyĪn IOS image to a TFTP server is very similar to the way we backed upġ.2. Upgrade fails or if you have problems with the new IOS version, youĬan revert back to the old proven IOS version.

Good idea to save a copy of the current IOS image. Router1# copy flash: tftpĪddress or name of remote host ? 172.25.1.1ĭestination filename ? Server with the following set of commands: Freebsd% touch /tftpboot/įreebsd% chmod 666 /tftpboot/ You can upload a copy of your router’s IOS image to a TFTP
