This specific image is a appliance. It works natively on:

Assume you have a Ubuntu 22.04 host with libvirt installed.

: Select "no" to jump straight to the CLI (Command Line Interface). ⚙️ Technical Specifications Requirement / Detail vCPU Minimum 2 (4 recommended for stable performance) RAM Minimum 8 GB (10-12 GB recommended for VXLAN topologies) Disk Format QCOW2 (QEMU Copy-On-Write) Architecture 64-bit (I7 series indicates the 64-bit standalone NX-OS) Management

This specific version supports the classic NX-OS feature set: