Release Notes

Applies to: ESXi 6.5.x
Solution: The maximum number of VMs that Windows can support is 31. You can manually set the MSI-X vectors to
31. For more information, see the VMware Knowledge Base article 2032981.
VMware ESXi host periodically disconnect and
reconnect from vCenter Server during heavy load on
storage subsystem
Description: ESXi host gets disconnected periodically from vCenter Server during heavy load on storage subsystem.
However, the host gets reconnected automatically after some time.
Applies to: ESXi 6.5.x
Solution: This issue can be ignored because there is no functionality loss.
The PCI passthrough section on vSphere client or
vCenter server does not display Dell PowerEdge
Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD
Description:
After a hot plug of Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD, the device is not available for PCI passthrough. The
device itself is not displayed in the PCI passthrough page.
Applies to: ESXi 6.5.x
Solution: Restart hosted service (/etc/init.d/hostd restart) to make the device available for passthrough
esxcli command is unable to fetch hardware FRU list
information in ESXi 6.5
Description:
In ESXi 6.5, the following esxcli command is unable to fetch the hardware FRU list information.
# esxcli hardware ipmi fru list
not well-formed (invalid token): line 7, column 176.
Applies to: 6.5.x
Solution: This is a known issue in ESXi 6.5.x which is fixed in ESXi 6.7.
In ESXi 6.5.x, use the localcli command instead of esxcli.
# localcli hardware ipmi fru list
Unsafe shutdowns counter of a NVMe device is
incremented for both soft and abrupt shutdowns
Description:
In ESXi 6.5, Unsafe shutdowns counter of a NVMe device is incremented for both soft, and abrupt
shutdowns.
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