Release Notes

Hardware Health status reports the raw reading
instead of the computed reading of IPMI Sensors
Description: In ESXi vCenter Server or Webclient, the Host Hardware status information reports the raw reading of
the sensors rather than the computed reading.
Applies to: ESXi 6.5.x and 14
th
generation PowerEdge servers
Solution: Use Open Manage Server Administrator or iDRAC to monitor system health status.
iDRAC does not report the operating system
information
Description: PowerEdge server installed with VMware ESXi 6.5 does not report the installed operating system
information in iDRAC.
Applies to: ESXi 6.5.x, 13
th
, and 12
th
generation PowerEdge servers
Solution:
By default, WBEM is disabled. The workaround is to enable WBEM by running the command:
esxcli system wbem set -e 1
iDRAC does not report the operating system
information
Description:
PowerEdge server installed with VMware ESXi 6.0.x does not report the installed operating system
information in iDRAC.
Applies to: ESXi 6.5.x and 14
th
generation PowerEdge servers.
Solution: Install OpenManage Server Administrator on ESXi.
Operating system reinstallation on top of an existing
ESXi installation on a BOSS device fails
Description:
Dell EMC 14
th
generation PowerEdge Server configurations include a Boot Optimized Server Storage
(BOSS) device for OS boot. BOSS device supports two Intel M.2 devices that are configured as separate
non-RAID drives (PD1, PD2) or RAID 1 (VD). This configuration provides an option to have two physical
disk (PD1, PD2) or RAID 1(VD) options, utilizing the two physical disks which are Intel M.2 devices.
On the first installation of ESXi 6.0.x to a BOSS PD 1, OS initializes or formats the disk layout and works
as expected.
After ESXi 6.0.x is installed on a BOSS device, with ESXi 6.0.x installed on PD1, if a customer creates a
VD on top of two physical disks (PD1, PD2), a subsequent reinstall (overwrite) of ESXi fails to reformat
the disk layout. Upgrades of the existing installation (using original non-RAID drive) works.
Applies to: ESXi 6.5 and 14
th
generation PowerEdge Servers
Workaround:
Delete the virtual disk (VD) and erase the physical disks manually from HII (System BIOS > Device
Settings > BOSS AHCI Configuration Utility > Erase Physical disks), and then recreate the VD
again. This removes existing partition table and results in successful installation.
20 Known issues