Release Notes
Table Of Contents
- VMware vSphere 7.x on Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers Release Notes
- Contents
- Release summary
- Compatibility
- New and enhanced in VMware vSphere 7.0 release
- Known issues
- vLCM upgrade fails when Mellanox-nmlx4 Async 3.19.70.1 driver is installed
- Host seeding feature fails to perform when Dell EMC customized VMware 7.0 U2 A00 image is installed
- vLCM upgrade with Dell EMC 7.0 U1-A03 Custom Addon file with Intel-icen Async driver 1.4.2.0 fails
- VMware ESXi 7.0 U2 A00 fails to boot on upgrading from earlier ESXi version using custom offline bundles
- An ESXi host with Solarflare devices may experience PSOD during reboot post enabling SR-IOV
- Persistent memory datastore is not listed under vCenter
- iDRAC web interface displays incorrect status with ESXi inbox native driver
- Configuration changes made are not persistent across hosts that are restarted
- Operating system takes more time to complete boot when Intel DCPMM is configured in the interleaved app-direct mode
- All vCPUs assigned to a virtual machine are not visible in the guest operating system
- The Dell iSM and SFCB services fail to start after DCUI restarts the management agents
- Hostd core dump files are generated in /var/core on the VMware ESXi 7.0 host
- Virtual machine fails to start when Secure Encrypted Virtualization is enabled
- Virtual machine with Secure Encrypted Virtualization enabled uses only one VMware vCPU
- NVDIMM battery health status is displayed incorrectly on vCenter web client and ESXi host web client
- 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
- Upgrading to ESXi 7.0 from earlier ESXi version fails
- VMware ESXi 7.0 does not boot after upgrading from VMware ESXi 6.5.x
- Upgrading to ESXi 7.0 from earlier ESXi version fails due to system management software incompatibility
- Installation of ESXi 7.0 fails on PowerEdge modular servers with BCM 5719 or 5720
- Surprise hot-plug of NVMe device is not supported
- Surprise hot-plug of an NVMe in a vSAN environment results in a PSOD
- The esxcli commands fail to locate the non-NVMe storage devices
- The option to start the NTP service does not work post configuration
- The driver modules qedf and qedi are not available for the QLogic 412xx adapter
- Unable to enable SRIOV on Solarfare devices with ESXi 7.0
- The rdma module for BCM 57416 devices fail to load in ESXi 7.0
- Uninstalling Dell EMC iSM VIB fails to delete files
- FCoE adapter speed is displayed as 0
- Status of the FCoE controller is displayed as offline
- The NIC description is incorrect
- The hardware label for PCIe devices is shown as Not appropriate
- Description of the NVMe drive displayed is incorrect
- Resources and support
- Contacting Dell EMC
Persistent memory datastore is not listed under
vCenter
Description: When persistent memory is configured to your ESXi host, persistent memory datastore is not listed under
datastore. This is a known issue with the vCenter.
Applies to: ESXi 7.0.x
Workaround: Use esxcl or localcli commands on the ESXi host. Below is the command:
esxcli storage filesystem list namespace.
Systems
affected:
Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with persistent memory.
Tracking number: 95100
iDRAC web interface displays incorrect status with
ESXi inbox native driver
Description: If the ESXi inbox native driver is installed, iDRAC web interface displays an incorrect status for network
card details such as operating system driver state and family driver version. In the example of the
Broadcom 5720 device, the driver version is listed as "4.1." or "4.1.|"
Applies to: ESXi 7.0.x
Workaround: This issue can be ignored as there is no functionality loss. For more information about the port link status
and driver version, use vCenter Server or the cli command: esxcfg-nics -l..
Systems
affected:
All Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
Tracking number: 86600, 185896
Configuration changes made are not persistent across
hosts that are restarted
Description:
Configuration changes made on the ESXi 7.0 host are not persistent across the hosts that are restarted.
This issue applies to Dell EMC PowerEdge C4140 server with ESXi 7.0 installed on Dell Internal Dual SD
Modules (IDSDM) and to servers with ESXi 7.0 installed on Dell EMC PowerEdge RAID Controller H345
having Non-RAID boot LUN.
Applies to: ESXi 7.0.x
Workaround:
Use the command devListStabilityCount to increase the stability count. For more information, see
VMware Knowledge Base article 2149444.
Systems
affected:
Dell PowerEdge C4140 and servers with Non-RAID boot drive that is associated with Dell EMC
PowerEdge RAID Controller H345.
Tracking number: 178624, 180524
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