Upgrading APIC from ver 2.3 to 3.1

[sandevsingh]

Hi fellow members, I am trying to upgrade the Cisco APIC from ver 2.3.1e to 3.1.2m. I have downloaded the iso file and the related n9000 aci-switch software , but when i try to upload the .iso file to the APIC GUI under firmware repository, it shows me that the upload completed 100%, but when I refresh the GUI, it`s not present there. I was able to upload the n9000 aci-switch software successfully and that shows up in the repository. 

From the CLI-

cd /firmware/fwrepos/fwrepo

ls

aci-catalog-dk9.2.3.1e.bin  aci-n9000-dk9.13.1.2m.bin  boot  md5sum

please advise anyone?

[Manuel Velasco]

Can you ssh to APIC and provide the output of the command below:

df -h

Another option to upload the file is via SCP, you can use the winSCP utility to do this.

For example

a) Download and install WinSCP
https://winscp.net/eng/download.php

b) Open WinSCP, in option File Protocol select SCP, also you can select SFTP,  Hostname: <APIC IP> and User name and Password.


c) Click Login.

d) In the left panel search for the image to upload and in the right panel move into /home/admin



e) Drag image from left panel to right panel to copy into /home/admin.

• Place the image into the Firmware Repository.
  
  a) Open a SSH session to APIC.
  
  b) go to bash shell by typing bash, 
  
  c) cd /home/admin
  d) Type command firmware add <version-no>.iso.
   
  e) Check the currently firmware uploaded by running firmware list.
  
  Example:
  
  

  admin@apic3:~> firmware list
  Name                 : aci-catalog-dk9.1.2.3c.bin
  Type                 : catalog
  Version              : 1.2(3c)
  Size(Bytes)          : 30871
  Checksum             : 6daca6eae985e3e857b9f7da10145c22
  Release-Date         : 2016-04-07T05:58:30.000+00:00
  Download-Date        : 2016-05-30T16:19:46.964+00:00