Release Notes

Chapter 1: Release summary..........................................................................................................6
Version................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Release date..........................................................................................................................................................................6
Priority and recommendations..........................................................................................................................................6
Installation and upgrade instructions.............................................................................................................................. 6
Chapter 2: Compatibility............................................................................................................... 7
System configuration requirements................................................................................................................................ 7
Memory.............................................................................................................................................................................7
Chapter 3: Known issues............................................................................................................... 8
The UID information for the Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H310 is displayed incorrectly........................... 9
The health status of the SD cards are not updated under the Hardware Health tab........................................ 9
Network connectivity is lost when virtual machines configured with Virtual Guest Tagging (VGT) are
migrated to another ESXi host................................................................................................................................... 10
The Hardware Health tab of the vCenter Web Client does not display any information when a drive
is removed....................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Status of the NVMe devices configured as a host cache device is not updated after surprise removal..... 11
The NIC description is incorrect......................................................................................................................................11
FCoE adapter speed is displayed as 0........................................................................................................................... 11
The specific NVMe storage device model name is not displayed ......................................................................... 12
The vmkernel log displays a warning............................................................................................................................. 12
The vmkernel log displays an invalid support message on multiple PCIe devices.............................................. 12
PSOD is not seen in the host when the NMI option is selected in the iDRAC UI.............................................. 13
scsi-qla4xxx driver update fails with ESXi 6.0 U3 and ESXi 6.5.x Dell EMC customized images.................. 13
Virtual machines report guest data consistency errors after disk extend operation........................................ 13
iDRAC web interface shows incorrect status with ESXi inbox native driver...................................................... 14
ESXi OS installed on IDSDM fails to boot when USB 3.0 is enabled.....................................................................14
Data integrity issue occurs when deleting virtual disks on ESXi system with PERC9 controller in
RAID mode....................................................................................................................................................................... 14
qedf driver data integrity may fail at 256 KB block size.......................................................................................... 15
ESXi 6.5 U1 does not display the complete description of USB controller..........................................................15
Critical issue observed on Dell EMC PowerEdge 14
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generation servers with AMD processor and
HBA330/12Gbps controller......................................................................................................................................... 15
VMkernel logs may display a warning message in VSAN cluster configuration..................................................15
Uninstallation of Dell EMC OpenManage VIB fails to delete certain files............................................................ 16
Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with VSAN All-Flash configuration and deduplication enabled reports
unrecoverable medium or checksum error.............................................................................................................. 16
ESXi 6.5 with dell-shared-perc8 driver fails to clone VMs simultaneously on a shared datastore................16
qlnativefc driver does not load for QLE8262.............................................................................................................. 16
snmpd failure message is displayed in the vRealize log insight with snmp enabled...........................................17
ESXi OS with Secure boot enabled, the executables does not work on /scratch partition..............17
PowerEdge 14
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generations servers installed with ESXi are configured with default login credentials...... 17
By default, VMFS datastore is disabled on Dell EMC 14
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generation PowerEdge Servers with
factory-installed VMware ESXi on BOSS-S1...........................................................................................................18
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