Dell customized VMware ESXi support on the 17th generation of PowerEdge server platforms
Summary: This KB is to provide information about Dell customized VMware ESXi support stance on the Dell 17th generation of PowerEdge servers. The 17th generation of PowerEdge servers is based on Intel® Xeon® 6500P/6700P (Granite Rapids SP) and AMD EPYC™ 9005 Series Processor (Turin). ...
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Dell customized VMware ESXi support stance on the 17th generation of PowerEdge servers based on Intel (Granite Rapids)
Dell supports VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3 P05 (ESXi 8.0 Update 3e) and above and Dell customized ESXi 9.0 A00 on their 17th generation of PowerEdge servers based on Intel Xeon Granite Rapids processors.
Dell and Broadcom recommend enabling Latency-Optimized Mode (LOM) and Sub NUMA clustering (SNC) on the PowerEdge servers supporting XCC compute tile-based Intel Granite Rapids Processors. This is to ensure that the maximum performance is achieved. To do the same, traverse to the server BIOS settings noted in the below screenshots, save the changes, and install VMware ESXi.
Dell customized VMware ESXi support stance on the 17th generation of PowerEdge servers based on AMD (Turin)
Dell supports ESXi 8.0 Update3 and ESXi 9.0 on Dell PowerEdge 17th generation of servers based on AMD EPYC 9005 Series of processors. See VMware vSphere ESXi on Dell PowerEdge Systems Compatibility Matrix at the Dell support page for ESXi 8.x and ESXi 9.x. The PowerEdge server models based on AMD Turin are R7715, R6715, R7725, and R6725. Dell supports their customized version of VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3 EP3 (ESXi 8.0 Update 3c) and above and Dell customized ESXi 9.0 A00 for their 17th generation of servers based on AMD.
PCI Multi-Segment is a new feature which is available by default on the Turin processor based Dell servers. PCI Multi-Segment offers scalability by supporting more PCI devices by having multiple segments and each of them having multiple PCIe bus segments. Dell supports PCI Multi-Segment on one Socket and two Socket system. However, it is unsupported when 17th generation of AMD servers used with ESXi versions prior to ESXi 8.0 Update 3 P05/8.0 Update 3e. See PCIe Multi-Segment support stance for Dell PowerEdge servers and VMware ESXi for specifics. When you use ESXi 8.0 Update 3 build prior to P05 on a Dell 17th generation of AMD server, ensure to select One Segment option in the Dell server BIOS.
It is recommended that Dell customized VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3e/P05 and above is used as it offers PCI Multi-Segment feature support. Below is a screenshot that shows a BIOS token named as PCI Multi-Segment support on the Dell PowerEdge 17th generation of platforms based on AMD. By default, PCI Multi-Segment is enabled by default (Termed as Two Segments).
The below screenshot shows the BIOS option for PCI Multi-Segment support.
Dell customized VMware ESXi 9.0 A00 enables PCIe Multi-Segment for these AMD Turin based platforms.
Affected Products
OEMR XL R670, OEMR XL R770, OEMR XL R6715, OEMR XL R6725, OEMR XL R7715, OEMR XL R7725, PowerEdge R670, PowerEdge R6715, PowerEdge R6725, PowerEdge R770, PowerEdge R7715, PowerEdge R7725, Dell vSAN R670 Ready Node, Dell vSAN R770 Ready NodeArticle Properties
Article Number: 000334057
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 08 Jul 2025
Version: 9
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