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
Tracking number: 154804
FCoE adapter speed is displayed as 0
Description:
Dell EMC PowerEdge systems MX740c and MX840c with ESXi 7.0 and FC adapter configuration displays
the FCoE adapter speed as 0 when you run one of the following commands:
● esxcli storage san fc list
● localcli storage san fc list
When you run the same command on the same system that is configured with an FC device and a lun that
is associated with an FC device, the FC adapter speed is not displayed as 0.
Applies to: ESXi 7.0
Workaround: Not applicable
Systems
affected:
Dell EMC PowerEdge MX740c servers and Dell EMC PowerEdge MX840c servers
Tracking number: 157316
Status of the FCoE controller is displayed as offline
Description: The status of the QLogic FastLinQ 41xxx Series FCoE controller is displayed as offline in vCenter server
although, the LUNs associated with the controller are operational.
Applies to: ESXi 7.0
Systems
affected:
Dell EMC PowerEdge MX740c and Dell EMC PowerEdge MX840c servers.
Tracking number: 167266
The NIC description is incorrect
Description:
In Dell EMC PowerEdge systems with ESXi 7.0, the installed Broadcom 57416 device is displayed as
Broadcom BCM57416 NetXtreme-E 10GBASE-T RDMA Ethernet Controller instead of Broadcom
BCM57416 NetXtreme-E Dual-Media 10G RDMA Ethernet Controller. This is a cosmetic issue and
there is no functionality loss.
Applies to: ESXi 7.0
Workaround: Not applicable
Systems
affected:
All Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
Tracking number: 154618
The hardware label for PCIe devices is shown as Not
appropriate
Description:
On Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with AMD processors, the hardware label for PCIe devices in ESXi
Direct Control User Interface (DCUI) is shown as N/A. But the vCenter Server and other esxcli
commands show the appropriate values.
Applies to: ESXi 7.0
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