Administrator Guide

behavior is mostly observed because some of the ESXi 6.5 async drivers may be retained and loaded by
default post upgrading to ESXi 6.7.
For example, below are the versions of driver VIBs (vSphere Installation Bundles) which are retained
from Dell EMC 6.5U1-A10 Image to Dell EMC 6.7-A00.
Figure 1 : ESXi Package list post upgrade
3.2 Hardware Components
3.2.1 Host Requirements
As detailed in Section 3.2, Quick Boot support is limited to only specific set of platforms that have been
jointly qualified by VMware and Dell EMC. This platform support list is expected to expand in
future vSphere releases. ESXi hypervisor maintains a platform list that is used to validate Quick
Boot compatibility. Below command helps to identify the platforms which are qualified for quick boot.
#/usr/lib/vmware/loadesx/platforms.txt
ESXi relies on platform name exposed by SMBIOS tables via VSI node /hardware/bios/dmiInfo. Quick
Boot uses this value to match the server model listed in the platform list.
3.2.2 Device Considerations
One of the easiest way to check if your Platform configuration (host type, peripherals and device drivers)
supports Quick Boot feature is by executing the following script available as part of ESXi 6.7 installed
image.
# /usr/lib/vmware/loadesx/bin/loadESXCheckCompat.py
If your platform configuration meets the Quick Boot hardware and software requirements then executing
the loadESXCheckCompat.py script should yield a similar output as shown in Figure 2.
Quick Boot on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers