Release Notes

Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes
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also does not support a dedicated hotspare while applying a hardware profile.
Description: Raid Topology does not support a dedicated hotspare in the reference topology and also
does not support dedicated hotspare while applying hardware profile.
Resolution/Workaround: If you need a dedicated hotspare in reference topology, set up the RAID
outside of the Dell Management Plug-in.
Version Affected: All
Issue 15: Firmware download fails when trying to downgrade firmware from Q4 block release.
Description: The firmware downgrade will fail sometimes if the user is trying to downgrade LC,
IDRAC and other firmware at the same time.
Resolution/Workaround: downgrade LC first and then downgrade the rest of the firmware once LC
firmware downgrade is completed.
Issue 16: Connection profile association not shown in host compliance page when inventory is not able
to get iDRAC IP for the host.
Description: If while running inventory, the iDRAC is non-responsive and it is not able to get iDRAC IP,
the inventory will fail and on the host compliance page the host is shown as not associated with the
connection profile.
Resolution/Workaround: Reset the iDRAC to fix the issue of iDRAC not being responsive and then
rerun the inventory. If the inventory is able to get the iDRAC IP, then the host will be associated with
the correct connection profile.
Version Affected: 1.6 and later
Issue 17: A Communication Error Message is displayed after clicking the Firmware link from vSphere
Client.
Description: If you have a slow network speed (9600BPS), you may get a Communication Error
Message as shown below after clicking on the Firmware link in vSphere Client for the Dell
Management Plug-in. The Communication Error Message is caused when the connection times out
(which was initiated by the Microsoft Internet Explorer) while trying to obtain the Software Inventory
list. For Microsoft Internet Explorer 8/9/10, the default “Receive Time out” value is set to 10
seconds.
Resolution/Workaround: Use the follow steps to fix the issue:
1. Open RegEdit.
2. Navigate to the following location: