Reference Guide
Windows 2016
BCM57404 NetXtreme-E Dual-port 10 Gb/25 Gb Ethernet (Broadcom)
BCM57406 NetXtreme-E Dual-port 10 GBase-T Ethernet (Broadcom)
Emulex Engine (XE) 100 series (Skyhawk)—NIC and FCoE drivers are inbox, only for iSCSI hardware ooad out of box drivers are
needed
NOTE: For more information on drivers without inbox support, go to Dell TechCenter.
NOTE: For the latest driver updates, go to Dell.com/support/drivers.
Operating system name is displayed incorrectly
Description: The Special Administration Console (SAC) interface redirects text output from features, like Recovery Console
through the out-of-band port. iDRAC is the out-of-band port, which connects to a remote computer running a
terminal emulation software (Command prompt, in this scenario). The system with Windows Server 2016 operating
system displays the product name as Windows Server 2012 R2 in the SAC interface by issuing id command.
Workaround: The x is available in the 9D Cumulative Update for Microsoft Windows Server 2016. For more information about
this update, download the Windows update catalog server details listed at Microsoft Knowledge Base Article
3192366.
Unable to convert Windows Server Core to OS with
Desktop Experience
Description:
Unlike previous versions of Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2016 does not support the conversion
between Windows Server and Server with Desktop Experience.
Workaround: To change the operating system type, reinstall the Windows Server 2016 operating system. For more information
about installation options for Windows Server 2016, see Windows Server 2016 documentation.
Unable to boot into Windows Server 2016 if Host
Guardian Hyper-V Support or Device Guard is enabled
on PERC H330
Description:
When you enable Host Guardian Hyper-V Support or Device Guard on PERC H330, the system does not able to
boot in to Windows 2016 operating system. It requires reimaging the operating system or restoring from backup.
Although the failure regularly occurs on a virtual disk with RAID 5, it also could occur for other RAID levels with
dierent circumstances, such as a RAID 1 VD in degraded state. All partitions created on the H330 controller may
be aected.
Workaround: Do not enable the Host Guardian Hyper-V Support, or Device Guard feature (through Group Policy). For more
information, see the Dell Knowledge Base page QNA44045.
When NVMe device is attached to a running VM, the
device is not enumerated
Description:
When NVMe device is attached to a virtual machine through Discrete Device Assignment (DDA) feature, the
NVMe device is not enumerated successfully after it is hot removed and hot plugged.
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