Release Notes

Contents
1 Overview........................................................................................................................................................5
Installation and upgrade instructions............................................................................................................................... 5
2 Issues and resolutions.................................................................................................................................... 6
Data integrity issue occurs when deleting virtual disks on ESXi system with PERC9 controller in RAID mode.... 6
qedf driver data integrity may fail at 256 KB block size................................................................................................6
Uninstallation of Dell EMC OpenManage VIB fails to delete certain les....................................................................6
IPMI driver stack may stop responding when iDRAC hard reset is performed.......................................................... 6
Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with VSAN All-Flash conguration and deduplication enabled, displays
checksum error...................................................................................................................................................................7
After installing ESXi OS, ACPI error messages are displayed in the VMkernel log.....................................................7
PowerEdge 14th generations servers installed with ESXi have been congured with default login
credentials........................................................................................................................................................................... 7
By default, VMFS datastore is disabled on Dell EMC 14th generation PowerEdge servers with factory-
installed VMware ESXI on BOSS-S1................................................................................................................................8
Scratch partition stops working after hardware or software iSCSI is enabled on ESXi with the scsi-
be2iscsi Emulex driver....................................................................................................................................................... 8
In ESXi Hardware Status, vmnics displays Battery status............................................................................................ 8
In ESXi host client, physical NICs reports duplicate entries of the speed supported................................................9
Embedded Host Client or vCenter Server reports an error when conguring SR-IOV............................................ 9
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.................................................................................................................9
ESXi 6.0 U3 upgrade to ESXi 6.5 fails with UEFI Secureboot enabled....................................................................... 9
QLE2692 Network controller card is listed as QLogic Corp 2700..............................................................................10
Operating system reinstallation on top of an existing ESXi installation on a BOSS device fails because of
an Invalid Partition table...................................................................................................................................................10
NUMA related warning message is reported in VMkernel logs when Dell Fault Resilient Memory is enabled..... 10
iDRAC does not report the operating system information........................................................................................... 11
Vendor label for certain hard drives report as NVMe................................................................................................... 11
When iSM VIB is running on ESXi 6.0 U2, syslog le displays error messages intermittently................................. 11
IPMI driver stack may stop responding when iDRAC hard reset is performed..........................................................11
Fault tolerance feature is not supported on AMD 63xx series processor..................................................................12
vSphere web client displays incorrect Service Tag for Dell EMC PowerEdge blade servers.................................. 12
Unable to upgrade VMware ESXi when the ESXi partition table contains a coredump partition.......................... 12
Conguring NVMe devices as passthrough device to the guest operating system, ESXi host stops
responding and results in PSOD..................................................................................................................................... 12
Power supply unit status and details are displayed incorrectly in vSphere web client or vCenter Server............ 13
Temperature status of the processor may display incorrectly in vSphere WebClient or vCenter Server..............13
Storage related sensor details are not available in vSphere WebClient or vCenter Server..................................... 13
Dell EMC PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD device is not detected during hot-plug............................ 14
VMs congured with Fault Tolerance might not be in a protected state.................................................................. 14
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