{"id":7507,"date":"2023-08-02T14:58:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T20:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=7507"},"modified":"2023-08-02T15:14:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T21:14:17","slug":"nexus-9k-or-nxos-9000-failed-trying-to-read-config-file-from-on-vmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=7507","title":{"rendered":"Nexus 9K or NXOS 9000 failed. trying to read config file from on VMWare"},"content":{"rendered":"

When trying to load a Nexus OVA in my lab VMWare cluster I was getting the “failed. trying to read config file” every time I reloaded the switch. I figured out I needed to add a single line to the config:<\/p>\n

boot nxos bootflash:\/nxos.9.2.4.bin<\/code><\/pre>\n
My full base config is:<\/p>\n
hostname nexus9k-template\r\nno password strength-check\r\nip route 0.0.0.0\/0 10.0.50.1 vrf management\r\ninterface mgmt0\r\n  vrf member management\r\n  ip address 10.0.50.26\/24\r\nfeature ssh\r\nvrf cont management\r\nip route 0.0.0.0\/0 10.0.50.1\r\nboot nxos bootflash:\/nxos.9.2.4.bin<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When trying to load a Nexus OVA in my lab VMWare cluster I was getting the “failed. trying to read config file” every time\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cisco","category-networking","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7509,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions\/7509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}