- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Release summary
- Compatibility
- Known issues
- Downgrade i40en and Marvell E3 drivers on the systems with ESXi 6.5 U3 A08 image
- The UID information for the Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H310 is displayed incorrectly
- 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
- The NIC description is incorrect
- FCoE adapter speed is displayed as 0
- The specific NVMe storage device model name is not displayed
- The vmkernel log displays a warning
- The vmkernel log displays an invalid support message on multiple PCIe devices
- PSOD is not seen in the host when the NMI option is selected in the iDRAC UI
- scsi-qla4xxx driver update fails with ESXi 6.0 U3 and ESXi 6.5.x Dell EMC customized images
- Virtual machines report guest data consistency errors after disk extend operation
- iDRAC web interface shows incorrect status with ESXi inbox native driver
- ESXi OS installed on IDSDM fails to boot when USB 3.0 is enabled
- Data integrity issue occurs when deleting virtual disks on ESXi system with PERC9 controller in RAID mode
- qedf driver data integrity may fail at 256 KB block size
- ESXi 6.5 U1 does not display the complete description of USB controller
- Critical issue observed on Dell EMC PowerEdge 14th generation servers with AMD processor and HBA330/12Gbps controller
- VMkernel logs may display a warning message in VSAN cluster configuration
- Uninstallation of Dell EMC OpenManage VIB fails to delete certain files
- Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with VSAN All-Flash configuration and deduplication enabled reports unrecoverable medium or checksum error
- ESXi 6.5 with dell-shared-perc8 driver fails to clone VMs simultaneously on a shared datastore
- qlnativefc driver does not load for QLE8262
- snmpd failure message is displayed in the vRealize log insight with snmp enabled
- ESXi OS with Secure boot enabled, the executables does not work on /scratch partition
- PowerEdge 14th generations servers installed with ESXi are configured with default login credentials
- By default, VMFS datastore is disabled on Dell EMC 14th generation PowerEdge Servers with factory-installed VMware ESXi on BOSS-S1
- Scratch partition stops working after hardware or software iSCSI is enabled on ESXi with elxiscsi Emulex driver
- Virtual machines fail to power on, when system BIOS has MMIO set to 56 TB with supported GPU configured as pass-through device
- In ESXi host client, physical NICs reports duplicate entries of the speed supported
- Embedded Host Client or vCenter Server reports an error when configuring SR-IOV
- Virtual machines fail to power on, when System BIOS has MMIO set to 56 TB with Network Controllers enabled with NPAR or NPAREP and SR-IOV
- In ESXi 6.5, xHCI related platform erratum is reported in VMkernel logs
- Hardware Health status reports the raw reading instead of the computed reading of IPMI Sensors
- iDRAC does not report the operating system information
- iDRAC does not report the operating system information
- Operating system reinstallation on top of an existing ESXi installation on a BOSS device fails
- NUMA related warning message is reported in VMkernel logs when Dell Fault Resilient Memory is enabled
- Hardware Health Status tab does not display sensor details
- VMKernel logs may display a warning message
- Hostd log may display warning message
- VMkernel logs may display a warning message related to jumpstart plugin
- SAS address of the Dell EMC PERC controller is displayed incorrectly
- SATA SSD disks may report disk protocol incorrectly
- Some Emulex controller models are displayed incorrectly
- Host platform fails due to unsupported sector sizes on the NVMe devices
- Intel Ethernet 10G 2P X520 adapter controller is displayed incorrectly
- vmnic enumeration for the Mellanox controller may display as vmnic 1000202
- Dell PERC H310 model name is displayed incorrectly
- System physical memory reported in DCUI varies
- vSphere web client displays incorrect Service Tag for Dell EMC PowerEdge blade servers
- Configuring NVMe devices as passthrough device to the guest operating system, ESXi host stops responding and results in PSOD
- Power supply unit status and details are displayed incorrectly in vSphere Web Client or vCenter Server
- Temperature status of the processor may display incorrectly in vSphere Web Client or vCenter Server
- Storage-related sensor details are not available in vSphere Web Client or vCenter Server
- Dell EMC PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD device is not detected during hot-plug
- The status of LUN or disks is displayed as degraded
- Dual port Mellanox card displays incorrect vmnic number
- Incorrect name for Dell PowerEdge FD332 storage controller
- Software RAID is not supported for VMware ESXi
- Status of some of the PCI devices is listed as Unknown on vCenter server
- PSU wattage is not displayed for a ESXi host on the vCenter Server
- ESXi Direct Console User Interface displays the hardware label as N/A
- ESXi installation may fail while deploying from virtual media
- Unable to turn on Windows virtual machine when Dell PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD is directly connected as a passthrough device
- VMware ESXi host periodically disconnect and reconnect from vCenter Server during heavy load on storage subsystem
- The PCI passthrough section on vSphere client or vCenter server does not display Dell PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD
- esxcli command is unable to fetch hardware FRU list information in ESXi 6.5
- Unsafe shutdowns counter of a NVMe device is incremented for both soft and abrupt shutdowns
- Dell EMC PowerEdge servers running specific versions of ESXi 6.0 U3 fails to upgrade to ESXi 6.5.x or ESXi 6.7
- Resources and support
- Contacting Dell EMC
VMware vSphere 6.5.x on Dell EMC PowerEdge Systems Release Notes
Downgrade i40en and Marvell E3 drivers on the systems with ESXi 6.5 U3 A08 image
- Description
- As there are unsupported drivers in the A08 image, you must downgrade i40en and Marvell E3 drivers when you have ESXi 6.5 U3 A08 image installed on your system.
- Applies to
- Dell EMC customized VMware ESXi 6.5 U3 image customers that have upgraded from A08 or later.
- Solution
- To uninstall the drivers, follow the steps:
- To uninstall the below driver VIBs, see
Downgrading device drivers in VMware ESXi (2079279).
- i40en - v1.13.1.0
- qfle3 - 1.1.12.0
- qfle3f - 1.1.15.0
- qfle3i - 1.1.5.0
- qcnic - 1.1.57.0
Install the below driver version listed in Step 2 & Step 3.
- To install the i40en drivers form VMware HCL, see VMware ESXi 6.5 native i40en 1.9.5 NIC Driver for Intel Ethernet Controllers X710, XL710, XXV710, and X722 family.
- To install the Marvel E3 driver set version MRVL-E3-Ethernet-iSCSI-FCoE-v1.0.119.2-16969975.zip which includes qfle3 - v1.1.6.1, qfle3f - 1.1.9.0, qfle3i - 1.1.2.0, qcnic - 1.0.51.0 from VMware HCL, see VMware ESXi 6.5 Driver CD for QLogic Network/iSCSI/FCoE Driver Set.
- To uninstall the below driver VIBs, see
Downgrading device drivers in VMware ESXi (2079279).
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