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
New and enhanced in VMware vSphere 7.0
release
VMware vSphere 7.0 includes the ESXi 7.0 hypervisor and is managed by vCenter Server 7.0. The current release of VMware
vSphere incorporates feature upgrades, new hardware, feature support, and bug fixes that enhance the virtualization experience
in VMware environments.
NOTE: The issues that are listed in this document are only applicable for Dell EMC servers with VMware vSphere 7.0
installed.
Following are some of the important features that are included with vSphere 7.0:
● Simplified vSphere Lifecycle Manager
● vSphere with Kubernetes
● Improved distributed resource scheduler (DRS)
● HTTP/HTTPS boot
Topics:
• Installation and upgrade instructions
Installation and upgrade instructions
Dell EMC recommends VMware ESXi 7.0 A02 image for all installation and upgrade instances from previous ESXi versions.
Your Dell EMC customized VMware ESXi 7.0 A00 image must be installed as a new installation or deployment. Dell EMC
recommends you to follow the VMware recommendations published in VMware Knowledge Base article 78487 and Dell
Knowledge Base article SLN320957.
For the list of enhancements and bug fixes, see the version-specific VMware vSphere Release Notes at
www.support.vmware.com.
NOTE: For more information related to VMware ESXi installation on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, see Dell Virtualization.
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