- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Release summary
- Compatibility
- New and enhanced in VMware vSphere 7.0 release
- Known issues
- Installing and uninstalling of OMSA generates a coredump file
- Image size is displayed incorrectly when attached to virtual console
- Nodes are not displayed during vMotion wizard
- CPU information is not populated in custom DCUI screen for Intel Saphhire-Rapids processor based systems with factory installed operating system
- Operating system upgrade fails on PowerEdge XR4000w with ESXi 7.x GPIO driver
- NVMe over TCP Lun size
- PERC LUN fails to enumerate
- Exception is reported during datastore browse
- Core dump files generated post NVMe drive hot plug
- ESXi NIC firmware version or vCenter is displayed incorrectly
- ESXi version is displayed incorrectly in iDRAC post performing VUM-based rollup bulletin upgrade
- The model name for the Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller H350i MM is displayed incorrectly
- Fan redundancy status is incorrect
- iDRAC IPv6 IP address is blank
- NVIDIA GPU name is displayed incorrectly
- Systems installed with ESXi 7.0U2c/d and upgrading to Dell custom image of 7.0U3 fails
- Rollup bulletin upgrade failure observed with 7.0 U2d based custom offline bundle
- TPM related error message is observed during ESXi boot
- ESXi host reboot and VM migration takes more time longer than expected
- ISO upgrade to ESXi 7.0 Update 3 fails if live VIBs are installed
- 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
VMware vSphere 7.x on Dell PowerEdge Systems Release Notes
An ESXi host with Solarflare devices may experience PSOD during reboot post enabling SR-IOV
- Description
- An ESXi host with Solarflare devices may experience PSOD during reboot post enabling SR-IOV. This is a known issue with ESXi 7.0 U1 and Solarflare devices.
- Workaround
- None
- Solution
- This issue is resolved in ESXi 7.0 U2.
- Systems affected
- Dell EMC PowerEdge 14G servers with Solarflare devices enabled for SR-IOV.
- Applies to
- ESXi 7.0 x
- Tracking number
- 185568
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