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
2. Run the command: /etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog restart or /sbin/services.sh
restart
Systems
affected:
All Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
Tracking number: 176426
Hostd core dump files are generated in /var/core on
the VMware ESXi 7.0 host
Description: After the management agents are restarted from the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) on VMware
ESXi 7.0 hosts, hostd core dump files are generated.
Applies to: ESXi 7.0.x
Systems
affected:
All Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
Tracking number: 181891
Virtual machine fails to start when Secure Encrypted
Virtualization is enabled
Description:
Virtual machine with Linux guest operating system fails to start after Secure Encrypted Virtualization
(SEV) is enabled.
Applies to: ESXi 7.0 U1
Workaround: Update the Linux guest operating system virtual machine kernel version to 5.10 kernel.
Systems
affected:
Dell EMC PowerEdge yx5x servers with AMD processors.
Tracking number: 179558
Virtual machine with Secure Encrypted Virtualization
enabled uses only one VMware vCPU
Description:
Virtual machine with Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) enabled uses only one VMware vCPU
although more than one VMware vCPUs is assigned.
Applies to: ESXi 7.0 U1
Systems
affected:
Dell EMC PowerEdge yx5x servers with AMD processors.
Tracking number: 180679
NVDIMM battery health status is displayed incorrectly
on vCenter web client and ESXi host web client
Description:
The Hardware Health tab of the ESXi host web client and vCenter web client displays the status of
the NVDIMM battery incorrectly. The status is shown as Healthy when the battery power cable and I2C
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