Release Notes

Known issues
Topics:
• Data integrity issue occurs when deleting virtual disks on ESXi system with PERC9 controller in RAID mode
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qedf driver data integrity may fail at 256 KB block size
• Uninstallation of Dell EMC OpenManage VIB fails to delete certain files
• IPMI driver stack may stop responding when iDRAC hard reset is performed
• Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with VSAN All-Flash configuration and deduplication enabled, displays checksum error
• After installing ESXi OS, ACPI error messages are displayed in the VMkernel log
• PowerEdge 14th generations servers installed with ESXi are configured with default login credentials
• By default, VMFS datastore is disabled on Dell EMC 14th generation PowerEdge Servers with factory-installed VMware
ESXi on BOSS-S1
• Scratch partition stops working after hardware or software iSCSI is enabled on ESXi with the scsi-be2iscsi Emulex driver
• In ESXi Hardware Status, vmnics displays Battery status
• In ESXi host client, physical NICs reports duplicate entries of the speed supported
• Embedded Host Client or vCenter Server reports an error when configuring SR-IOV
• Virtual machines fail to power on, when System BIOS has MMIO set to 56 TB with Network Controllers enabled with NPAR
or NPAREP and SR-IOV
• ESXi 6.0 U3 upgrade to ESXi 6.5 fails with UEFI Secureboot enabled
• QLE2692 Network controller card is listed as QLogic Corp 2700
• Operating system reinstallation on top of an existing ESXi installation on a BOSS device fails
• NUMA related warning message is reported in VMkernel logs when Dell Fault Resilient Memory is enabled
• iDRAC does not report the operating system information
• Vendor label for certain hard drives report as NVMe
• When iSM VIB is running on ESXi 6.0 U2, syslog file displays error messages intermittently
• IPMI driver stack may stop responding when iDRAC hard reset is performed
• Fault tolerance feature is not supported on AMD 63xx series processor
• vSphere web client displays incorrect Service Tag for Dell EMC PowerEdge blade servers
• Unable to upgrade VMware ESXi when the ESXi partition table contains a coredump partition
• Configuring NVMe devices as passthrough device to the guest operating system, ESXi host stops responding and results in
PSOD
• Power supply unit status and details are displayed incorrectly in vSphere Web Client or vCenter Server
• Temperature status of the processor may display incorrectly in vSphere Web Client or vCenter Server
• Storage-related sensor details are not available in vSphere Web Client or vCenter Server
• Dell EMC PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD device is not detected during hot-plug
• VMs configured with Fault Tolerance might not be in a protected state
• The status of LUN or disks is displayed as degraded
• Dual port Mellanox card displays incorrect vmnic number
• VMware ESXi installer lists local LUNs under the Remote section
• Incorrect name for Dell PowerEdge FD332 storage controller
• Software RAID is not supported for VMware ESXi
• Status of some of the PCI devices is listed as Unknown on vCenter server
• PSU wattage is not displayed for a ESXi host on the vCenter Server
• ESXi Direct Console User Interface displays the hardware label as N/A
• ESXi DCUI displays lesser memory than the total
• ESXi installation may fail while deploying from virtual media
• Unable to boot ESXi 6.0 with Intel X710 devices
• ESXi 6.0 host does not function and results in Purple Screen of Death
• VMware ESXi host periodically disconnect and reconnect from vCenter Server during heavy load on storage subsystem
• Unable to write vmkernel coredump to local LUN when PSOD occurs
• ESXi console displays an error message
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