Release Notes
Table Of Contents
- VMware vSphere 6 on Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers Release Notes
- Overview
- Known issues
- Data integrity issue occurs when deleting virtual disks on ESXi system with PERC9 controller in RAID mode
- 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
- vmkernel log file displays an error message
- Unable to turn on Windows virtual machine when Dell PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD is directly connected as a passthrough device
- Cannot enable SR-IOV on Intel X520 adapter using vSphere web client
- The PCI passthrough section on vSphere client or vCenter server does not display Dell PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD
- Related information for virtualization solutions
- Getting help
3. To load the drivers, run Vmkload_mod ipmi_si_drv.
Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with VSAN All-Flash
configuration and deduplication enabled, displays
checksum error
Description:
Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with VSAN All-Flash configuration and deduplication enabled reports the
following vSphere observations in the Events tab:
● VSAN detected an unrecoverable medium or checksum error for component uuid on disk group uuid
● VSAN detected and fixed a medium or checksum error for component uuid on disk group uuid
Under specific operations and IO patterns, you will encounter IO read errors and in some cases severe
symptoms such as inaccessible VMs, host failures or stuck resynchronizations.
Applies to: ESXi 6.x
Solution: This is a known issue. Follow one of the following recommendations:
● Install the Patch as mentioned in the VMware Knowledge Base article 2151042.
● Install or upgrade to the latest Dell EMC customized image, that has this patch included. For more
information about Dell EMC customized image, refer to Image Customization Information.
After installing ESXi OS, ACPI error messages are
displayed in the VMkernel log
Description:
The Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with ESXi 6.0 U3 OS installed, VMkernel log displays the following
ACPI error messages:
ACPI Error: Incorrect return type [Integer] requested
[Buffer]0:00:00:06.226 cpu0:32768) (20120215/nsxfeval-219)
0:00:00:06.226 cpu0:32768)VMKAcpi: 160: Failed to evaluate _DSM: AE_TYPE
Applies to: ESXi 6.x
Solution: This issue can be ignored because there is no functionality loss.
PowerEdge 14
th
generations servers installed with
ESXi are configured with default login credentials
Description:
The Dell EMC 14
th
generation PowerEdge Servers installed with ESXi have been configured with
username as root and the password is the service tag of your system. This is different compared to
the Dell EMC 13
th
generation PowerEdge Servers because password was not set for username root.
Applies to: ESXi 6.0 Update 3 and later, and 14
th
generation PowerEdge servers
Solution: This is not an issue. This is a change introduced from Dell EMC factories shipping VMware ESXi.
To locate the service tag of your system, see the Locating Service Tag of your system section
in VMware vSphere 6.5.x on Dell EMC PowerEdge Systems Getting Started Guide at www.dell.com/
virtualizationsolutions.
8 Known issues