Cisco Nexus Titanium is finally out. And it is up and running. May not support everything that you were expecting but it will give you at least a basic idea and a feel of the great Cisco Nexus. At least, the CLI will not fail to keep your spirits up. All you need to do is download from one of the following links to get a VMware instance.
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Finding a suitable VMDK file to use was the hardest part. But in the end, I did. We have connectivity! Testing NX-OS NXOS1# sh verCisco Nexus Operating System (NX-OS) SoftwareTAC support: (c) 2002-2014, Cisco Systems, Inc.
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All rights reserved.The copyrights to certain works contained herein are owned byother third parties and are used and distributed under license.Some parts of this software are covered under the GNU PublicLicense. Hi Stuart,I know this is an older post, but still seems like the freshest on the topic. I'm running the latest UNL 0.9.0-96 and have tried your process above – thanks for this. My problem is that when I try to add the new N7K to my labs, the new image does not appear as an option.
Some background; my titanium image was running fine on VMWare workstation; I tied converting this from qemu-img, but without success. I the used Vmware converter to convert the image using 'other' option in the converter tool – this generated a new '.vmdk' image that I can succefully convert using qemu-img; I now have a 'hda.qcow2' image. I moved this to /opt/unling/addons/qemu/N7K directory and ran the permissions change, but I still don't see the image as an available option int my UNL lab edit view when adding nodes. FYI, my add node options list 'Cisco NX-OSv (Titanium)', but when selected, my new image is not available.
By the way, the 'Cisco NX-OSv (Titanium)' was default option right after the install of UNL. Sure appreciate if you can help me get past this problem so I can see if the new image will boot.
In this post I will go through what is required to setup GNS3 and add a Cisco NX-OS or NXOSv deviceFirst you can go to the GNS3 website and view the information about what is required to set this upYou will see that you need to download several files for this to workFirst you need to download the GNS3 Cisco NX-OSv appliance fromOnce you have this you will need to download Cisco image file from You will need a Cisco VIRL login in order to access these.You will now need to download and install GNS3 from Once installed you will need to also download the GNS3 VM. The GNS3 VM basically acts as your virtual router,switch or whatever device you are trying to simulate in GNS3. This is quite simple, the GNS3 VM is supplied as an.ova file which you can just import in to VMWare Workstation. The only change I made was to change the first NIC in the VM to be bridged so that it would pick up a DHCP address on my LAN. Start the VM and you should see something like the below:Now you can open GNS3. Once GNS3 is open it should pick up your GNS3 VM which you can see in the Server SummaryYou are now ready to add the NS-OXv devices into GNS3.
Click on the Router button and then click New appliance template. Then click Import an appliance template fileSelect the GNS3 appliance file you downloadedClick NextChoose to run the appliance on the GNS3 VM and click Next, then Next againClick the NX-OSv 7.3.0 appliance and then click Import, the status should be Ready to install then click Next. Press Yes to installAccept the defaults here and click NextClick NextClick FinishClick Switches and drag the NX-OS device into the projectRight click the device and click StartDouble-click the device to see it starting up in the consoleTo enable some of the addition features such as OSPF run the command below. This will start the feature trial periodswitch(config)# license grace-periodTo add a Windows appliance first go and download the Windows GNS3 appliance fileThen in GNS3 click the computers button and then click New Appliance Template.