- 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
The health status of the SD cards are not updated under the Hardware Health tab
- Description
- The health status of the SD card from the Dell Internal Dual SD Module (IDSDM) is displayed as Unknown on the respective Hardware Health tabs of the VMware ESXi web client and the vCenter web client.
- Workaround
- The iDRAC page displays the status of the IDSDM SD cards correctly.
- Systems affected
- All Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.
- Applies to
- ESXi 7.0
- Tracking number
- 101450
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