PowerEdge: Dell VMware ESXi Quick Boot support

Summary: Dell's quick boot support configurations for Dell customized VMware vSphere

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vSphere Quick Boot is an innovation in conjunction with major server vendors that restarts the VMware ESXi™ hypervisor without rebooting the physical host, skipping time-consuming hardware initialization. Skipping Hardware initialization enables vSphere Quick Boot feature to perform faster software upgrades for ESXi. See VMware KB 52477 for more details on this feature. Dell has been supporting Quick Boot from its inception, the below documentation links provides specific Quick Boot support on different generations of Dell PowerEdge servers with various VMware vSphere versions. 

  • For Dell customized VMware ESXi 6.x, Refer to initial release of Dell's Quick Boot Whitepaper. 
  • For Dell customized VMware ESXi 7.x, the Quick Boot compatibility guide is located here.  
  • For Dell customized VMware ESXi 8.x, the Quick Boot compatibility guide is available at Dell support. 
  • See VMware VCG for Dell PowerEdge server support stance for VMware Quick Boot for various ESXi versions. 

Affected Products

VMware, VMware ESXi 6.7.X, VMware ESXi 7.x, VMware ESXi 8.x

Products

PowerEdge R240, PowerEdge R250 Rack Server, PowerEdge R260 Rack Server, PowerEdge R340, PowerEdge R350 Rack Server, PowerEdge R360 Rack Server, PowerEdge R440, PowerEdge R450, PowerEdge R540, PowerEdge R550, PowerEdge R640, PowerEdge R6415 , PowerEdge R650 Rack Server, PowerEdge R650xs Rack Server, PowerEdge R6515 Rack Server, PowerEdge R6525 Rack Server, PowerEdge R660 Rack Server, PowerEdge R660xs, PowerEdge R6615, PowerEdge R6625 Rack Server, PowerEdge R740, PowerEdge R740XD, PowerEdge R740XD2, PowerEdge R7415, PowerEdge R7425, PowerEdge R750 Rack Server, PowerEdge R750xa Rack Server, PowerEdge R750xs Rack Server, PowerEdge R7515 Rack Server, PowerEdge R7525 Rack Server, PowerEdge R760 Rack Server, PowerEdge R760XA Rack Server, PowerEdge R760xd2 Rack Server, PowerEdge R760xs Rack Server, PowerEdge R7615 Rack Server, PowerEdge R7625 Rack Server, PowerEdge R840 Rack Server, PowerEdge R860 Rack Server, PowerEdge R940, PowerEdge R940xa, PowerEdge R960, PowerEdge T340, PowerEdge T350, PowerEdge T360 Tower Server, PowerEdge T440, PowerEdge T550 Tower Server, PowerEdge T560 Tower Server, PowerEdge T640 ...
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Article Number: 000181689
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 07 May 2026
Version:  10
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