Release Notes
Table Of Contents
- VMware vSphere 6.7.x on Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers Release Notes
- Release summary
- Compatibility
- New and enhanced in VMware vSphere 6.7.x release
- Fixes
- Known issues
- The esxcli or localcli commands fail to support receive side scaling (RSS)
- The UID information for the Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H310 is displayed incorrectly
- Operating system takes more time to complete boot when Intel DCPMM is configured in the interleaved app-direct mode
- The health status of the SD cards are not updated under the Hardware Health tab
- Network connectivity is lost when virtual machines configured with Virtual Guest Tagging (VGT) are migrated to another ESXi host
- The Hardware Health tab of the vCenter Web Client does not display any information when a drive is removed
- Status of the NVMe devices configured as a host cache device is not updated after surprise removal
- The NIC description is incorrect
- FCoE adapter speed is displayed as 0
- vSAN nodes may experience a PSOD during log collection under heavy load
- The vmkernel log displays a warning
- The vmkernel log displays an invalid support message on multiple PCIe devices
- PSOD is not seen in the host when the NMI option is selected in the iDRAC UI
- Auto-negotiation value shown as false though it was set with 100G
- The hardware label for PCIe devices is shown as Not appropriate
- Multiple sfcb core files are generated on ESXi 6.7 U1 host after installing OM and iSM
- Virtual machines report guest data consistency errors after disk extend operation
- SR-IOV functionality is not available for QLogic 41xxx adapter
- iDRAC web interface shows incorrect status with ESXi inbox native driver
- Dell EMC PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD device is not detected during hot-plug operation
- ESXi OS installed on IDSDM fails to boot when USB 3.0 is enabled
- While logging into OMSA, vSAN cluster experiences Connection Error
- Dell EMC customized VMware ESXi 6.7 A00 installer fails to boot from PXE infrastructure
- PCI devices status is listed as Unknown on vCenter server
- iDRAC does not report the operating system information
- FcoE, iSCSI, RoCE functionality are not available for BCM5741x and QL411xx in ESXi 6.7
- Unsafe shutdowns counter of an NVMe device is incremented for both soft and abrupt shutdowns
- Resources and support
- Contacting Dell EMC
Network connectivity is lost when virtual machines
configured with Virtual Guest Tagging (VGT) are
migrated to another ESXi host
Description: When virtual machines that are configured with 802.1q VLAN tagging are migrated to another ESXi host,
the network connectivity is lost. The network connectivity is reestablished within a few minutes without
any user intervention.
Applies to: ESXi 6.7.x
Cause: VMware VMotion is unable to send a Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) for the tagged guest
virtual machine. For more information VMware Knowledge Base article 2113783.
Workaround: Force an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) lookup request on the tagged network which generates an
egress traffic that is started from the new switch port and update the switch of the new location. Forcing
an ARP lookup request can be accomplished by performing a ping to another destination on the network
from inside the guest operating system running in the virtual machine.
Systems
affected:
All Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.
Tracking number: 173609
The Hardware Health tab of the vCenter Web Client
does not display any information when a drive is
removed
Description:
The Hardware Health tab does not generate alerts in the vCenter Web Client when a drive is removed
from the ESXi host or when a RAID storage array is modified.
Applies to: ESXi 6.7.x
Workaround: The drive status of the ESXi host is marked as Deassert under the Hardware Health tab when it is
removed. The status of the drive removal can also be obtained using the perccli storelib library in the ESXi
host shell.
Systems
affected:
All Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.
Tracking number: 81455
Status of the NVMe devices configured as a host
cache device is not updated after surprise removal
Description:
When surprise removal is performed on NVMe devices, the status of the drives that are configured
as a host cache device is not updated and listed as Available when the following esxcli or localcli
commands are queried:
esxcli storage core device list
esxcli storage nmp path list
Applies to: ESXi 6.7.x
Cause: This issue is an expected behavior as the surprise removal of devices that are configured as a host cache
device is unsupported.
Known issues 11