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Issue 5: Physical disk properties such as manufactured day, week, and year are available for SAS drives
only.
Issue 6: Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Storage Management 7.2 does not support PERC 4
controllers and earlier versions on ESXi 4.x, ESXi 5.x, ESX 4.x, and all 64-bit Linux Operating System.
Issue 7: Hot removal of enclosure is not supported in Storage Management. It may result in unpredictable
errors, such as stopping Storage Management service.
Issue 8: Creating many sliced span virtual disks using the spun-down drives through the command line or
GUI result may be delayed.
Workaround: After creating one sliced span virtual disk, wait for some time to create the next sliced span
virtual disk.
Issue 9: In ESX4 Classic, 'deprecated SCSI ioctl' message is displayed on the console.
Description: In VMware ESX 4.0 Classic system, the following warning message(s) is displayed on the
console: “Program dsm_sa_datamgrd is using the deprecated SCSI ioctl, Please convert it to SG_IO.” This is
a kernel warning message displayed when storage operations are in progress. This is only a deprecation
warning and not an indication of a failing operation.
Workaround: Reduce the kernel logging level. By default, VMware ESX kernel logging level is set to ‘6’ to
print all the kernel messages with severity higher than ‘information.’ Reduce it to ‘4’, so that messages with
severity, ‘error,’ and above get printed to the console.
To do this, execute the following command as a ‘root’ user: /proc/sys/kernel/printk.
Issue 10: A Security Key Identifier can contain numerals, lowercase alphabets, uppercase alphabets, non-
alphanumeric characters (except space), or a combination of any of these.
NOTE: If you have used the special characters ”/” (forward slash) or “ ‘ ” (single quote) in the Security Key
Identifier, they are displayed as “_” (underscore) on the Change Security Key page and Import Secured
Foreign Configurations page. This is applicable only to the Security Key Identifier and not to the Passphrase.
Issue 11: If Storage Management displays a path failure message for a Logical Connector after a reboot, use
the "Clear Redundant Path View", provided in the "Change Controller Properties" controller task, and
restart the system.
NOTE: Use this command only if you have intentionally removed the multipath connection while rebooting
the system.
Issue 12: In the VMware ESX 4.x and ESX 5.x environment, when you create a virtual disk using Storage
Management, you may see an error message "The task failed to complete: The create virtual disk task was
successful but the operating system may not be aware of the new virtual disk." However, the virtual disk is
available for all operations on rebooting the system.
Issue 13: Patrol Read is not supported on SSD media. The Patrol Read feature fails for any controller that
has SSD media on a virtual disk.