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
Systems
affected:
All Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.
Tracking number: 171186
The NIC description is incorrect
Description:
In Dell EMC PowerEdge systems with ESXi 6.7.x, the installed Broadcom 57416 device is displayed as
Broadcom BCM57416 NetXtreme-E 10GBASE-T RDMA Ethernet Controller instead of Broadcom
BCM57416 NetXtreme-E Dual-Media 10G RDMA Ethernet Controller. This is a cosmetic issue and
there is no functionality loss.
Applies to: ESXi 6.7.x
Workaround: Not applicable
Systems
affected:
All Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
Tracking number: 154618
FCoE adapter speed is displayed as 0
Description:
Dell EMC PowerEdge systems MX740c and MX840c with ESXi 6.7.x and FC adapter configuration
displays the FCoE adapter speed as 0 when you run one of the following commands:
● esxcli storage san fc list
● localcli storage san fc list
When you run the same command on the same system that is configured with an FC device and a lun that
is associated with an FC device, the FC adapter speed is not displayed as 0.
Applies to: ESXi 6.7.x
Workaround: Not applicable
Systems
affected:
Dell EMC PowerEdge MX740c servers and Dell EMC PowerEdge MX840c servers
Tracking number: 157316
vSAN nodes may experience a PSOD during log
collection under heavy load
Description:
vSAN nodes on the Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC processors experience a PSOD during
log collection on the nodes under heavy load. This behavior is an intermittent issue. The PSOD displays
entries that are similar to the following screen capture.
12 Known issues