Release Notes

Contents
1 Overview.................................................................................................................6
2 Installation and upgrade instructions...............................................................7
3 Issues and resolutions..........................................................................................8
NVMe devices configured as passthrough device to the guest operating system, ESXi host
stops responding...................................................................................................................................8
Unable to upgrade VMware ESXi when the ESXi partition table contains a coredump partition...... 8
IPMI driver stack may stop responding when iDRAC hard reset is performed...................................8
Power supply unit status and details are displayed incorrectly in vSphere WebClient or
vCenter Server....................................................................................................................................... 9
Temperature status of the processor may display incorrectly in vSphere WebClient or
vCenter Server....................................................................................................................................... 9
Storage related sensor details are not available in vSphere WebClient or vCenter Server................ 9
Samsung NVMe PCIe SSD device is displayed as an XS device under the PCIe passthrough
section................................................................................................................................................... 9
Unable to write vmkernel coredump to local LUN when PSOD occurs.......................................... 10
Unable to turn on Windows virtual machine when PCIe SSD is directly connected as a
passthrough device............................................................................................................................. 10
ESXi 5.x host does not function and results in Purple Screen of Death (PSOD), when NPAR is
enabled................................................................................................................................................ 10
The PCI passthrough section on VMware vCenter server does not display NVMe PCIe SSD......... 10
vSphere Webclient displays an error message while turning on a virtual machine, when it is
configured with Dell Express Flash NVMe PCIe-SSD as a passthrough device................................ 11
VM with Windows as the guest OS is unable to turn on when the Dell Express Flash NVMe
PCIe-SSD device is configured as a passthrough device...................................................................11
PCI passthrough page on vCenter client or server does not display the hot-plugged Dell
Express Flash NVMe PCIe-SSD device................................................................................................ 11
FCoE LUN gets disconnected from ESXi after system restarts..........................................................12
Shared storage LUNs exposed from Dell PowerEdge VRTX are not displayed under VMware
ESXi.......................................................................................................................................................12
VMware ESXi installer displays an error message “unrecognized disk label”....................................12
Fault-tolerant Shared PERC8 controller LUNs redundancy status displays as partial or no-
redundant.............................................................................................................................................13
ESXi does not support Cluster on Die Snoop Mode.......................................................................... 13
ESXi 5.5.x host may display PSOD when configured for vDGA with NVIDIA GPUs..........................13
IDSDM rebuilding on Dell’s 13th generation of PowerEdge servers................................................. 13
ESXi host does not display the FAN RPM on Hardware Status tab....................................................14
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