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
Identifying the series of your Dell EMC PowerEdge
servers
The PowerEdge series of servers from Dell EMC are divided into different categories based on their configuration. They are
referred as YX2X, YX3X, YX4X, YX4XX, or YX5XX series of servers. The structure of the naming convention is described below:
The letter Y denotes the character in the server model number. The character denotes the form factor of the server. The form
factors are listed below:
● C- Cloud
● F- Flexible
● M or MX- Modular
● R- Rack
● T- Tower
The letter X denotes the numbers in the server model number. The number denotes multiple characteristics about the server.
They are listed as follows:.
● The first digit (X) denotes the value stream or class of the server.
○ 1-5—iDRAC basic
○ 6-9—iDRAC Express
● The second digit denotes the series of the server. It is retained in the server naming convention and does not replace the
letter X.
○ 0—series 10
○ 1—series 11
○ 2—series 12
○ 3—series 13
○ 4—series 14
○ 5—series 15
● The last digit (X) always denotes the make of the processor as described below:
○ 0-Intel
○ 5-AMD
NOTE:
For servers that use an AMD processor, the model number is made up of four digits instead of three. The third digit
(X) denotes the number of processor sockets that the series of server supports.
● 1 one socket server
● 2 two socket server
Table 6. PowerEdge servers naming convention and examples
YX3X servers YX4X systems YX4XX systems YX5XX
PowerEdge M630 PowerEdge M640
PowerEdge R6415 PowerEdge R6515
PowerEdge M830 PowerEdge R440
PowerEdge R7415 PowerEdge R7515
PowerEdge T130 PowerEdge R540
PowerEdge R7425 PowerEdge R6525
Download drivers and firmware
It is recommended that you download and install the latest BIOS, drivers, and systems management firmware on your system.
Ensure that you clear the web browser cache before downloading the drivers and firmware.
1. Go to www.dell.com/support/drivers.
2. In the Drivers & Downloads section, enter the Service Tag of your system in the Enter a Dell Service Tag, Dell EMC
Product ID, or Model text box, and then click the right arrow button.
NOTE:
If you do not have the Service Tag, click Detect PC to allow the system to automatically detect your Service
Tag.
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