Cisco Nexus 3000 NX-OS Software Upgrade and Downgrade

The Cisco NX-OS software consists of one NXOS software image. The image filename begins with “nxos”.

Cisco Guide

Copying the image to the switch’s bootflash or USB drive using an additional option in the copy command.

switch# copy scp: source image_name bootflash: image_name

Booting the Switch from the USB

loader> boot usb1:nxos.7.0.3.I3.0.269.bin