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Solution: This issue can be ignored because there is no functionality loss.
Uninstallation of Dell EMC OpenManage VIB fails to
delete certain files
Description: Specific Dell EMC OpenManage files and directories are not deleted after uninstalling the Dell
OpenManage VIB.
Applies to: ESXi 6.5.x
Solution: This issue can be ignored because there is no functionality loss. Reboot the system for complete cleanup.
Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with VSAN All-Flash
configuration and deduplication enabled reports
unrecoverable medium or checksum error
Description:
Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with VSAN All-Flash configuration and deduplication that is enabled reports
the following vSphere observations in the Events tab:
● VSAN detected an unrecoverable medium or checksum error for component uuid on disk group uuid
● VSAN detected and fixed a medium or checksum error for component uuid on disk group uuid
Under specific operations and IO patterns, you encounter IO read errors and sometimes severe symptoms
such as inaccessible VMs, host failures, or stuck resynchronizations.
Applies to: ESXi 6.5.x
Solution: Perform one of the following steps:
● Install the Patch as mentioned in the VMware Knowledge Base article 2151081.
● Install or upgrade to the latest Dell EMC customized image, that has this patch included. For more
information about Dell EMC customized image, see Image Customization Information.
ESXi 6.5 with dell-shared-perc8 driver fails to clone
VMs simultaneously on a shared datastore
Description:
Due to open critical issues around dell-shared-perc8 driver (v06.806.89.00), Dell EMC has revoked
VMware ESXi 6.5 support on Dell EMC PowerEdge VRTX. Some of the use cases which fail on VRTX are
clone, snapshots and so on. The failure occurs when there are storage intensive I/O operations involving
Shared PERC8 VMFS datastore. During the failure, vmkernel log file reports:
Writing lock failed: I/O error
Applies to: ESXi 6.5.x
Solution:
Dell EMC recommends that you install ESXi 6.5 U1 A04 image which has latest dell-shared-perc8 driver
(v6.806.90.00).
qlnativefc driver does not load for QLE8262
Description:
The Dell EMC PowerEdge server with QLE8262 running ESXi 6.5 U1 does not load the qlnativefc driver.
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