Release Notes

Release Notes 17
ESX 4.x stops
responding with a
Purple Screen on
the Intel Xeon
3400 series
processor-based
systems.
ESX 4.x running on
Xeon 3400 series
processor-based systems
such as PowerEdge
T110, R210, T310, and
R310 may stop
responding with a
Purple screen. This
occurs when the Power
Management option of
the system BIOS is set
to Active Power
Controller.
To resolve this issue,
download and apply the
following minimum BIOS
versions from
support.dell.com:
• BIOS 1.3.4 for PowerEdge
T110 system
• BIOS 1.3.4 for PowerEdge
R210 system
• BIOS 1.3.6 for PowerEdge
T310 system
• BIOS 1.1.5 for PowerEdge
R310 system
ESX/ESXi
4.0 Update
1 or later
ESX 4.x fails to
boot and may
drop into the
recovery shell
when you replace
the storage
controller or
import foreign
configuration.
This issue occurs when
there is a change either
to the disk/LUN on
which ESX is installed,
or to the controller
connecting the
disk/LUN on which ESX
is installed.
This happens when the
Virtual Machine File
System (VMFS)
datastore that contains
the Service Console’s
virtual disk file is
detected as a snapshot
LUN.
To resolve this issue,
resignature the VMFS
datastore. For more
information, see
kb.vmware.com/kb/1012142
ESX 4.0.x
Issue Description Resolution Applies to