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
While logging into OMSA, vSAN cluster experiences
Connection Error
Description: While logging into OMSA, the vSAN cluster, under heavy utilization, experiences a Connection Error.
Applies to:
● ESXi 6.7.x
● openwsmand v2.2.1
Workaround: Restart the WSMan service by running the following command:
#/etc/init.d/wsman restart
Systems
affected:
All Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
Tracking number: 101360
Dell EMC customized VMware ESXi 6.7 A00 installer
fails to boot from PXE infrastructure
Description: Dell EMC customized ESXi 6.7 A00 installer fails to boot from PXE infrastructure either in the UEFI or
BIOS boot modes and displays the following error message:
Error loading DellEMC_.v00 … Fatal Error: 24 (TFTP error)
Applies to: ESXi 6.7.x
Workaround:
Go to TFTP/Web server and rename the ESXi 6.7 A00 file name from DellEMC_.v00 to
dellemc_.v00 or download and install the ESXi 6.7.x A01 image available at https://www.dell.com/
support.
Systems
affected:
All Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
Tracking number: 100451
PCI devices status is listed as Unknown on vCenter
server
Description:
On vCenter Server installed on an ESXi host, the status of some of the devices under Hardware Status
> PCI device is displayed as Unknown.
Applies to: ESXi 6.7.x
Workaround: This issue can be ignored because there is no functionality loss.
Systems
affected:
All Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
Tracking number: 79601 and 87243
Known issues 17