Nexus 7000 Upgrade Path

[Christian Jorge]

Good morning

I have some questions about the path to upgrade a pair of Nexus 7004/7006/7010 switches (presenting VDCs and single-homed FEX)

Those Nexus today have the version 6.2.16 installed

To reach the version 8.2.6 or 8.2.7a, should we go to the path

6.2.16 > 7.2(2) D1(2) > 7.3(8) D1(1) > 8.2(7a)

or do we have a safe shortcut to reach the final version?

We are planning a change window considering impact, reload, but we'd like to confirm a correct upgrade path

Regards

Christian

[Sergiu.Daniluk]

Hi @Christian Jorge 

You can do a direct upgrade, using cold upgrade (with reload):

Reference: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus7000/sw/upgrade/guide/cisco_nexus7000_software_upgrade_and_downgrade_guide_8x.html

Stay safe,

Sergiu