- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Introduction
- Change list
- NVDIMM-N Overview
- Hardware
- BIOS
- iDRAC NVDIMM-N Management
- Server Behavior with NVDIMM-Ns
- DIMM Configuration Changes
- Windows
- Linux
- ESXi
- General Errata
Beginning with ESXi version 6.7 NVDIMM-N hardware is supported. The NVDIMM-N devices will be detected on startup with auto-generated namespaces. All NVDIMM-N devices will have capacity pooled into a single logical memory array for access by ESXi virtual machines.
NVDIMM-N Hardware is now supported on ESXi 6.7U1. Features and functionality should be identical to ESXi 6.7
Firmware requirements:
Firmware | Minimum Required Versions | ||
---|---|---|---|
T640, R640, R740, R740XD, R940 | R840, R940xa | MX740c, MX840c | |
IDRAC | 3.15.15.15 | 3.19.19.19 | 3.20.20.20 |
BIOS | 1.3.7 | 1.1.1 | 1.0.0 |
NVDIMM-N | 9324 | 9324 | 9324 |
Please locate your product on support.dell.com to locate update packages for any of these firmware bundles.
Hardware requirements:
ESXi currently only supports NVDIMM-N hardware when the host system has an Intel Xeon™ Gold (51xx, 61xx) or Platinum (81xx) processor SKUs. Silver and Bronze SKUs are not sufficient for ESXi solution support at this time, but may be added in the future.
For BIOS Setup, default Persistent Memory settings can be used. However, both Non-Interleaved and Interleaved settings are supported by ESXi.