HOW TO RESET NEXUS SWITCH PASSWORD

How to reset Nexus switch Password !!!!!

But lets understand why we would need to Reset Nexus Switch Password 

1) Simply !!!! You forgot the password 

or 

2) You have a brand new switch and you have not selected normal setup .

(When you boot the nexus switch for the first time it will prompt for Abort Auto provisioning and proceed with Normal setup and when you enter Yes -

default username password will be admin admin123)

So lets understand the steps to Reset the Password

HOW TO RESET NEXUS SWITCH PASSWORD

STEPS :-

• Connect your laptop to console of the Nexus Switch 
• Open console of the switch 
• Reboot Switch 
• After Rebooting start pressing Ctrl + C immediately
• Switch loader mode will appear  loader >
• Enter the command 
• loader > cmdline recoverymode=1
• loader> dir to view the nx-os images present 
• loader > boot "nx-os name" e.g -loader > boot n9000-dk123.1.bin 
• Note in case after entering this command switch ask for login then use below command
• loader > boot n9000-dk123.1.bin load+found
• Switch will enter in boot mode 
• switch(boot)# admin-password Cisco@123
• switch(boot)#exit
• switch(boot)#load-NXOS
• Then switch will boot with select NX-OS
• Login with username - admin and new password (here Cisco@123)