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
The Hardware Health tab of the vCenter Web Client
does not display any information when a drive is
removed
Description: The Hardware Health tab does not generate alerts in the vCenter Web Client when a drive is removed
from the ESXi host or when a RAID storage array is modified.
Applies to: ESXi 7.0
Workaround: The drive status of the ESXi host is marked as Deassert under the Hardware Health tab when it is
removed. The status of the drive removal can also be obtained using the perccli storelib library in the ESXi
host shell.
Systems
affected:
All Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.
Tracking number: 81455
Status of the NVMe devices configured as a host
cache device is not updated after surprise removal
Description:
When surprise removal is performed on NVMe devices, the status of the drives that are configured
as a host cache device is not updated and listed as Available when the following esxcli or localcli
commands are queried:
esxcli storage core device list
esxcli storage nmp path list
Applies to: ESXi 7.0
Cause: This issue is an expected behavior as the surprise removal of devices that are configured as a host cache
device is unsupported.
Systems
affected:
All Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.
Tracking number: 171186
Upgrading to ESXi 7.0 from earlier ESXi version fails
Description:
Upgrading ESXi 6.5.x or ESXi 6.7.x to ESXi 7.0 fails with an error pointing to driver modules
dependencies.
Applies to: ESXi 7.0
Workaround: Your Dell EMC customized VMware ESXi 7.0 A00 image must be installed as a new installation or
deployment. Use the VMware ESXi 7.0 A02 image for upgrading from previous ESXi versions. It is not
recommended to use ESXi A00 image to upgrade from previous VMware ESXi versions such as ESXi 6.7.x
or ESXi 6.5.x. See VMware Knowledge Base article 78487 and Dell Knowledge Base article SLN320957.
Systems
affected:
All Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.
Tracking number: 148591, 159679, 159678
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