Need to replace the spine HW to N9K-C9332D-GX2B (cluster ver 4.2(7u))

[Nilay Patel]

How can we replace the spine hardware to N9K-C9332D-GX2B in cluster Version 4.2(7u)(Spine current version 14.2(7u)) since N9K-C9332D-GX2B ONLY supported from release 15.2.3 to release 16.1.1. Also we can not upgrade cluster to 5.X due current spine HW version N9K-C9336PQ(not supported). Is there any validated path out there?

[Robert Burns]

Upgrade the APIC cluster to a supported release (5.2(3) or later or 6.1(1) or later , then introduce the new spines.  

Robert

[Nilay Patel]

Thanks a lot for replying & helping. we have some challenges with HW & SW version. e.g.

Since we have N9K-C9336PQ as our current spine, we can not upgrade to 5.X train.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/Website/datacenter/apicmatrix/index.html#cur=4.2(7)&tar=5.3(2)

NOTE: Starting with Release 5.0(1), the following switches are no longer supported: N9K-C9336PQ, N9K-X9736PQ, N9K-C9504-FM, N9K-C9508-FM, N9K-C9516-FM, N9K-C9372PX-E, N9K-C9372TX-E, N9K-C9332PQ, N9K-C9372PX, N9K-C9372TX, N9K-C9396PX, N9K-C9396TX, N9K-C93128TX.