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Scratch partition stops working after hardware or software iSCSI is enabled on ESXi with elxiscsi

Emulex driver.................................................................................................................................................................. 18

Virtual machines fail to power on, when system BIOS has MMIO set to 56 TB with supported GPU

configured as pass-through device........................................................................................................................... 18

In ESXi host client, physical NICs reports duplicate entries of the speed supported....................................... 19

Embedded Host Client or vCenter Server reports an error when configuring SR-IOV....................................19

Virtual machines fail to power on, when System BIOS has MMIO set to 56 TB with Network

Controllers enabled with NPAR or NPAREP and SR-IOV.................................................................................... 19

In ESXi 6.5, xHCI related platform erratum is reported in VMkernel logs............................................................19

Hardware Health status reports the raw reading instead of the computed reading of IPMI Sensors......... 20

iDRAC does not report the operating system information......................................................................................20

Operating system reinstallation on top of an existing ESXi installation on a BOSS device fails....................20

NUMA related warning message is reported in VMkernel logs when Dell Fault Resilient Memory is

enabled............................................................................................................................................................................. 21

Hardware Health Status tab does not display sensor details..................................................................................21

VMKernel logs may display a warning message ........................................................................................................ 21

Hostd log may display warning message...................................................................................................................... 21

VMkernel logs may display a warning message related to jumpstart plugin........................................................21

SAS address of the Dell EMC PERC controller is displayed incorrectly.............................................................. 22

SATA SSD disks may report disk protocol incorrectly............................................................................................. 22

Some Emulex controller models are displayed incorrectly...................................................................................... 22

Host platform fails due to unsupported sector sizes on the NVMe devices...................................................... 22

Intel Ethernet 10G 2P X520 adapter controller is displayed incorrectly.............................................................. 22

vmnic enumeration for the Mellanox controller may display as vmnic 1000202................................................23

Dell PERC H310 model name is displayed incorrectly...............................................................................................23

System physical memory reported in DCUI varies.................................................................................................... 23

vSphere web client displays incorrect Service Tag for Dell EMC PowerEdge blade servers.........................23

Configuring NVMe devices as passthrough device to the guest operating system, ESXi host stops

responding and results in PSOD................................................................................................................................ 23

Power supply unit status and details are displayed incorrectly in vSphere Web Client or vCenter

Server ............................................................................................................................................................................. 24

Temperature status of the processor may display incorrectly in vSphere Web Client or vCenter

Server ............................................................................................................................................................................. 24

Storage-related sensor details are not available in vSphere Web Client or vCenter Server .........................24

Dell EMC PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD device is not detected during hot-plug....................25

The status of LUN or disks is displayed as degraded...............................................................................................25

Dual port Mellanox card displays incorrect vmnic number......................................................................................25

Incorrect name for Dell PowerEdge FD332 storage controller..............................................................................25

Software RAID is not supported for VMware ESXi.................................................................................................. 25

Status of some of the PCI devices is listed as Unknown on vCenter server..................................................... 26

PSU wattage is not displayed for a ESXi host on the vCenter Server................................................................ 26

ESXi Direct Console User Interface displays the hardware label as N/A............................................................ 26

ESXi installation may fail while deploying from virtual media................................................................................. 26

Unable to turn on Windows virtual machine when Dell PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD is

directly connected as a passthrough device.......................................................................................................... 26

VMware ESXi host periodically disconnect and reconnect from vCenter Server during heavy load on

storage subsystem........................................................................................................................................................ 27

The PCI passthrough section on vSphere client or vCenter server does not display Dell PowerEdge

Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD................................................................................................................................. 27

esxcli command is unable to fetch hardware FRU list information in ESXi 6.5..................................................27

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