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
Technical support resources
● vmware.com/support
● www.dell.com/support/home
● Dell.com/services
Discussion forums
● Communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn
● Dell Virtualization
● Wikis, Forums, Blogs, and Videos
● Dell Community
Knowledge base
● kb.vmware.com/kb
NOTE: For more information that is related to the VMware ESXi installation on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, go to Dell
Virtualization.
Virtualization videos for Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
All the supported virtualization videos for Dell EMC PowerEdge servers are available in the Supported Operating Systems for
Dell PowerEdge servers playlist.
Table 4. Virtualization videos for Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
Video title Links
Downloading the Dell EMC customized ESXi image from support site www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnVxtkAkYTI
Downloading Dell EMC customized ESXi image from VMware
website
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnWyuyxuk5k
Operating system Deployment (VMware ESXi)—Installing Using
CD/DVD
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EbufUS86zA
Enabling and Configuring Fault Resilient Memory on Dell EMC
PowerEdge servers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=retSh-XlsK0
OS Deployment (VMware ESXi)—Installing on BOSS S1 device www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB1loXpFFME
OS Deployment (VMware ESXi)—Installing on IDSDM www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC-Xntg5mgw
To enable UEFI Secure Boot on VMware ESXi for Dell EMC’s yx3x
PowerEdge servers
NOTE: This video is applicable to VMware ESXi 6.5.x and later.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll9qlF9qV9I
To enable UEFI Secure Boot on VMware ESXi for Dell EMC’s yx4x
PowerEdge servers
NOTE: This video is applicable to VMware ESXi 6.5.x and later.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZB_XyV0enY
Documentation resources
This section provides information about the documentation resources for your server.
Table 5. Additional documentation resources for your server
22 Resources and support