Cisco Cisco Nexus 1100 Cloud Services Platform Installation Guide

This document is for network administrators with knowledge of the Cisco Nexus 1000V and experience 
in the installation, upgrade, and management of Cisco Nexus 1000V VSMs. 

This section includes the following topics:

Cisco Nexus 1010 software is pre installed as an ISO image that includes the following components:

Cisco Nexus 1010 kickstart image 
This is the image for the Cisco Nexus 1010 Manager virtual machine which manages shelf and 
redundancy group configuration.

Hypervisor with a Cisco Nexus 1010 agent 

In the event of disk corruption on the Cisco Nexus 1010, the system can be brought up by copying the 
image from a CD. 

The Cisco Nexus 1010 upgrade is a hitless in-service software upgrade (ISSU). When you upgrade the 
software, the operational data is retained without loss of persistent information.

The standby Cisco Nexus 1010 is upgraded first and reloaded by the active. During the upgrade, 
messages display as the ISO image is extracted, verified, synchronized, and the upgrade summarized. 
After the standby comes up with the new software version, the system waits for all VSBs to come up 
before the standby takes over and reloads the active with the new version. Finally, the ISSU is complete 
when both Cisco Nexus 1010s form an HA pair with the new software version.

Before installing or upgrading to Cisco Nexus 1010 Release 4.2(1)SP1(3), you must know or do the 
following:

You must have CIMC software Version 1.2.1(b) or higher installed. For more information, see the 

Use the 

 to verify you have this CIMC 

version installed. For more information, see the 

Servers document

.

The upgrade or install fails if an earlier version of CIMC is installed.