New |best|: Nexus9300v939qcow2
The Cisco Nexus 9300v Series is a line of data center switches designed to support the growing demands of modern data centers, including cloud, virtualization, and software-defined networking (SDN). The Nexus 9300v 9396C-O2 is a specific model within this series, offering high performance, scalability, and programmability.
8. Use Cases
- Cisco DC certification labs (CCIE DC, CCNP DC)
- VXLAN EVPN control-plane testing with multi-site
- Automation testing (Ansible, Nornir, pyATS)
- NX-OS upgrade/downgrade simulations (requires
install allvia bootflash) - Programmability (Python on-box, gRPC, NETCONF)
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- BGP EVPN Control Plane
- Anycast Gateway (improved ARP suppression)
- VPC (Virtual Port-Channel) between virtual leaves
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3. Technical Specifications (9.3.9.qcow2)
| Parameter | Value |
|-----------|-------|
| Image format | QCOW2 (QEMU Copy-On-Write v2) |
| Compressed size | ~1.2 GB |
| Decompressed size | ~4 GB |
| vCPU | Minimum 2 vCPU (recommended 4 for VXLAN/EVPN) |
| RAM | 6 GB minimum – 8 GB recommended for full features |
| Disk | 32 GB (thin provisioned) |
| NICs | Max 8 virtual interfaces (VMXNET3 / VirtIO) |
| Switching capacity | Simulated – up to 100 Gbps per port (software forwarding) |
| NX-OS CLI | Full parity with physical Nexus 9300 (except hardware-specific commands like show inventory power). | Cisco DC certification labs (CCIE DC, CCNP DC)
A "Heavy" Tenant: Unlike smaller virtual routers, this Nexus 9300v is a resource-heavy node. To run it smoothly in a simulator like EVE-NG, you need a beefy server with at least 8GB of RAM and actual physical CPU cores rather than just threads.
