Release Notes
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 Dell.com/virtualizationsolutions.
By default, VMFS datastore is disabled on Dell EMC
14
th
generation PowerEdge servers with factory-
installed VMware ESXI on BOSS-S1
Description: The Dell EMC 14
th
generation servers installed with ESXi on the BOSS-S1 device do not have VMFS datastore
enabled by default.
Applies to: ESXi 6.0 Update 3 and later, 14
th
generation PowerEdge servers, and BOSS-S1
Solution: Dell EMC recommends using the BOSS-S1 device as a boot device only for VMware ESXi. For more information,
see VMware Knowledge Base article 2145210.
Scratch partition stops working after hardware or
software iSCSI is enabled on ESXi with the scsi-
be2iscsi Emulex driver
Description:
When specic versions of scsi-be2iscsi Emulex driver is installed or is part of ESXi, then enabling the hardware or
software iSCSI stops the scratch partition. This prevents the redirection of logging to a persistent data store
causing loss of log data across reboots.
Applies to: ESXi 6.0.x
Solution: This is a known issue with Emulex driver which is also part of Dell EMC Customized image ESXi 6.0 U3 and
planned to address in the later version images. Follow any one of the workarounds as appropriate.
The workarounds are:
• Use syslog for logging on hardware or software iSCSI congurations with Emulex driver version
be2iscsi-11.2.1147.5 and later. For more information about conguring syslog, refer to VMware
Knowledge Base article 2003322.
• Uninstall the scsi-be2iscsi driver and the associated shared library ima-be2iscsi, if Emulex is not part of the
conguration. To uninstall the scsi-be2iscsi driver, run the following commands:
a /etc/init.d/hostd stop
b localcli software vib remove -n scsi-be2iscsi -n ima-be2iscsi
c reboot
In ESXi Hardware Status, vmnics displays Battery
status
Description:
With ESXi 6.0 U3, Network Interfaces is displayed in Battery status on the Hardware Status page in vCenter
Server. You will notice that the Battery status is displayed in the vmnics section.
Applies to: ESXi 6.0.x and 11
th
generation PowerEdge servers
8 Issues and resolutions