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IOS Upgrade to Cisco WS-C6509-E - DRAM and Flash Requirements

Ceremony Bald
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Hello,

Please would it be possible for anyone to advise on the following:

I need to upgrade the IOS on a WS-C6509-E with a 720 Supervisor card, currently running IOS vers: s72033-ipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-33.SXI3 - looking at the images available it seems that the latest image for the same version of code is: s72033-ipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-33.SXI13.bin, am I correct in saying this? Or is there a later image I could use?

Also I'm confused based on the requirements of 512DRAM & 512 Flash for this image, when executing the following command, 'show sup-bootdisk' & show version' - does the amount of memory available indicate the available Flash or DRAM, or both?

#sh sup-bootdisk

-#- --length-- -----date/time------ path
1 33554432 Mar 4 2010 19:45:56 +00:00 sea_console.dat
2 33554432 Mar 4 2010 23:03:00 +00:00 sea_log.dat
3 2901 May 15 2010 09:31:02 +01:00 crashinfo_20100515-083103
4 98539332 May 15 2010 09:52:24 +01:00 s72033-ipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-33.SXI3.bin

858882048 bytes available (165675008 bytes used)


#sh vers

cisco WS-C6509-E (R7000) processor (revision 1.4) with 983008K/65536K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID SMC11330075
SR71000 CPU at 600Mhz, Implementation 0x504, Rev 1.2, 512KB L2 Cache
Last reset from s/w reset
4294967294 Ethernet interfaces
29 Virtual Ethernet interfaces
466 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
36 Ten Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
1917K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
8192K bytes of packet buffer memory.

65536K bytes of Flash internal SIMM (Sector size 512K).
Configuration register is 0x2102

Thanks....

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Iulian Vaideanu
Level 4
Level 4

"dir sup-bootdisk:" should show the "bytes total" of the Flash (probably 1GB, judging by the available+used from your "show sup-bootdisk" output)

DRAM also seems to be 1GB ("bytes of memory" output by "show version"), so you're good to go for any of the latest IOS images available for SUP720 (12.2.33-SXI14, 12.2.33-SXJ10, 15.1.2-SY6):

https://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?mdfid=280829702&softwareid=280805680&release=15.1.2-SY6&relind=AVAILABLE&rellifecycle=MD&reltype=latest

I'm not sure that all 6500 line-cards are supported by all these IOS trains, so this is probably something to consider when choosing an IOS...

Thanks Lulian for your comments...