Release Notes

SAS address of the Dell EMC PERC controller is
displayed incorrectly
Description: In ESXi 6.5, the SAS address of the Dell EMC PERC controller is displayed as WWNN under the Storage
Adapter section, in vSphere Webclient.
Applies to: ESXi 6.5.x
Solution: This issue can be ignored because there is no functionality loss.
SATA SSD disks may report disk protocol incorrectly
Description: In ESXi 6.5, vSphere WebClient may report the SATA SSD disks as SAS protocol.
Applies to: ESXi 6.5.x
Solution: This issue can be ignored because there is no functionality loss.
Some Emulex controller models are displayed
incorrectly
Description:
In ESXi, Emulex OCe14102-UX-D, Emulex OCm14104-UX-D, and Emulex OneConnect OCm14102B
controller models are displayed as Emulex Corporation Emulex OneConnect OCe14000 NIC.
Applies to: ESXi 6.5.x
Solution: This issue can be ignored because there is no functionality loss.
Host platform fails due to unsupported sector sizes
on the NVMe devices
Description:
The PowerEdge UEFI partition manager supports sector sizes 512B or 4 KB for the NVMe devices. When
you reformat the NVMe device to a new sector size other than 512B or 4 KB, the host platform fails to
boot.
Applies to: ESXi 6.5.x
Solution: Use only 512B (default) or 4 KB sector sizes. To recover 2.5-inch NVMe devices, which have been
formatted to an unsupported sector size:
1. Remove the devices from the host platform before booting.
2. Hot insert once the operating system is up and running.
3. Reformat to one of the supported sector sizes—512B or 4 KB.
Intel Ethernet 10G 2P X520 adapter controller is
displayed incorrectly
Description:
In ESXi, the Intel Ethernet 10G 2P X520 Adapter model is displayed incorrectly as Intel Corporation 82599
EB 10-Gigabit SFP+ Network Connection.
Applies to: ESXi 6.5.x
Solution: This issue can be ignored because there is no functionality loss.
22 Known issues