Release Notes

Chapter 1: Release summary..........................................................................................................5
Chapter 2: Compatibility............................................................................................................... 6
Supported host operating systems and hypervisors...................................................................................................6
Supported packages........................................................................................................................................................... 6
Chapter 3: New and enhanced in this release.................................................................................7
Chapter 4: Fixes............................................................................................................................ 8
BIOS update does not complete when an update is performed using the Linux .BIN files............................... 8
The owsmangencert.sh script fails and reports an error...........................................................................................9
RAID level is displayed incorrectly when a virtual disk created by Dell EMC RAID Controller S150 is
degraded............................................................................................................................................................................9
Status of the RAID 0 LV is displayed as Available when one of the members of the RAID array is
surprise removed............................................................................................................................................................. 9
Logical Volume Manager (LVM) does not activate a free physical volume when one of the NVMe
devices is surprise removed........................................................................................................................................ 10
The dmidecode utility displays the slot type as <OUT OF SPEC> for PCIe Gen 4 NVMe slots.....................10
Software RAID virtual disk not detected during SLES 15 installation................................................................... 10
Running supportconfig reboots the server with AMD processor........................................................................... 11
Root user login fails after run level is switched...........................................................................................................11
ACPI error messages are displayed................................................................................................................................ 11
Unable to create or modify namespace for NVDIMM............................................................................................... 12
Dell EMC PowerEdge AMD Server is not booting to OS after enabling the SME/SEV feature.................... 12
When system reboots, system stops responding at the end of the reboot process ....................................... 12
Servers with the AMD Rome processor are unable to read the boost states using cpupower......................13
PowerEdge servers with the AMD Rome processor fail to detect an NVMe drive after multiple hot
plugs .................................................................................................................................................................................13
When booting the system from iSCSI with Mellanox CX-4 and CX-5 adapters, the system reports
csum failure message....................................................................................................................................................14
Linux operating system fails to detect the Intel x710 card .....................................................................................14
System crashes when rebooted with SR-IOV-enabled QLogic cards...................................................................15
Component updates in systems with iSM installed on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
operating system generates watchdog timer expired messages....................................................................... 15
Systems with the AMD Rome processor display a CCP and PSP initialization failure messages in
dmesg............................................................................................................................................................................... 15
After kernel update, the NFIT errors are displayed................................................................................................... 16
System reboots when high-level storage I/O operations are performed on NVMe drives............................. 16
Chapter 5: Known issues.............................................................................................................. 17
/proc/mdstat and mdadm -D commands display incorrect statuses when two NVMe devices are
surprise removed from a RAID 5 MD array..............................................................................................................17
MD RAID layer is not notified of the surprise removal of Samsung NVMe devices.......................................... 17
Unable to shut down SLES when the graceful shutdown option from iDRAC is selected or when
power button is pressed on the server.....................................................................................................................18
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