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Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Hardware Installation and Reference Guide
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Chapter 6 Managing the Device Hardware
EPLD Configuration
  • Supported Device Hardware, page 6-26
  • Supported Device Operating Systems, page 6-26
Supported Device Hardware
The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series device must include the following hardware:
  • One or two supervisor modules, each with at least 120 MB of available bootflash or slot0 memory
  • One or more I/O modules
  • One or more fabric modules
  • Two fabric fan tray modules
  • Two system fan tray modules
You must be able to access the system through a console, SSH, or Telnet.
You must have administrator privileges to work with the Nexus 7000 Series device.
Supported Device Operating Systems
The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series device must be running the Cisco NX-OS operating system, which is used 
to perform the EPLD upgrades.
Updated EPLDs
Depending on the Cisco NX-OS release that you are using, the EPLDs that you download and reinstall 
can include newly updated EPLDs. 
Table 10 lists the newly updated EPLDs for Cisco NX-OS release 
4.1(2) and the hardware that they affect. Table 11 lists all of the EPLD versions for the Cisco NX-OS 
release 4.1(2). 
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Ta b l e  10 Updated EPLDs for the Cisco NX-OS Release 4.1(2) 
NX-OS Release Module Type EPLD Device New EPLD Version
4.1(2) Supervisor module Power Manager
IO
Local Bus CPLD
3.7
3.26
3.0
48-port 10/100/1000 Mbps 
Ethernet I/O module
Power Manager 
IO
5.4 
2.11
48-port 1 Gbps Ethernet I/O 
module
Power Manager 
IO
SFP
Forwarding Engine
4.6 
1.3
1.4
1.6










