Nexus 5548UP with Fex Upgrade

[Dayst]

We have 2 N5k switches with FEX and VPC port channel. It was upgraded from 5.2 to 7.0 and after booting the 1 switch the VPC port channels were disabled on the 1 switch and our network was down to the Servers.

Is this normal and can I upgrade from 5.2 to 7.0 without any intermediate updates?

[Kirk J]

Greetings.

See https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus5500/sw/release/notes/7x/Nexus5500_Release_Notes_7x.html#Supported%20Upgrade%20and%20Downgrade%20Paths%20for%20Cisco%20NX-OS%20Release%207.0(8)N1(1)

for upgrade path requirements, but 5.2 should be able to go to 7.0  7.1 and later require 7.0

Might want to double check the issu checklist at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus5500/sw/upgrade/705_N1_1/n5500_upgrade_downgrade_705_n1_1.html#pgfId-769873

Thanks,

Kirk...

[Dayst]

Hi Kirk,

thank you for your feedback. I'll look at the articles and go through them.

Another question would be do I have to shut down all my systems even though everything is redundantly wired if I update once again?