PowerEdge R350

This is a firmware catalog which contains validated and certified firmware stack for selected Dell VMware vSAN Ready Nodes based on Dell customized ESXi 8.X branch Images.

In some migration scenarios, the OpenManage Enterprise 4.0 target import operation may fail with an error 'Failed to decrypt backup archive' during migration. Use the following article to help in troubleshooting this scenario and various ways to address the failure.

The PowerEdge 16G 700 W Power supply, Dell Part Number (DPN): 3D09N, only supports high line voltage, the input voltage range is 200 V AC-240 V AC.

PowerEdge 14/15G servers cannot downgrade to iDRAC9 firmware versions 4.40.10.00 and older once the iDRAC9 has installed the June 2024 firmware release.

Observing frequent nmlx5_en_L2TableIndexAdd/Remove events generated by the Mellanox nmlx5 driver in the ESXi VMkernel log.

During the power counter roll-over for utilization, the power counter rolls over before the rollover counter. This leads to an erroneous power spike which may throttle the server.

Initiating a graceful restart or shutdown using Redfish APIs may fail for the Windows Server Operating System.

Dell solid state drive (SSD) fails after system reports low environment operating temperature.

This article provides information about PERC ECC messages that are seen due to firmware memory handling issues.

PERC H750, H755, and H755N controllers may experience single or multi-bit ECC messages.

Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Machine (VM) Live Migration may fail or no LUNs are mapped after powering on VMs due to Windows architecture and hardware configuration limiting the number of vFC LUNs.

PowerEdge customers using Broadcom NXE adapters in VMware ESXi may experience unexpected results when attempting to tune port parameters. Particularly in configurations with multiple NXE adapters present, understanding the port ordering from both a VMware (vmnicX) and serverPCI-e Slot-Bus-Device-Function (SBDF) may be helpful to select the appropriate commands.

PowerEdge server intermittently encounters a UEFI iSCSI Boot From SAN (BFS) fatal error 8 upon booting with the PowerStore appliance.

VMware vCenter registration may fail in OMEVV 1.3 with a custom certificate chain installed in OpenManage Enterprise (OME) or vCenter.

Slow insertion of a SAS or SATA drive in PowerEdge 15G or 16G Servers with a PERC or HBA controller configuration causes a "No Access" bit to be set, leading to an inability to blink and unblink drives.

On an ESXi host, if the Flow Control setting on the BCM5720 is modified without a cable inserted, the network interface card (NIC) may fail to establish a link when a cable is later inserted. The issue does not occur if the setting is modified with a cable inserted in the NIC port.

Dell Samsung Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) PM1653 and PM1655 solid state drives may report excessive Sense Key faults 0x3, 0x11, 0x0, or 0x4, 0x29, 0x4. These faults have the potential to cause unexpected drive issues.

Dell PowerEdge Server: 15G and 16G Intel-based systems may fail with bugcheck 0x139 after installing the Intel chipset drivers or Matrox video driver.

When installing or restarting the ISM 5.1.1 on an ESXi 8.x environment, the VMK interface for BMC_Network vSwitch gets configured with a DHCP assigned address instead of static.

Dell Enterprise SAS, SATA SSD: SMART predictive failures triggered by remaining write endurance falling below the threshold

This article explains why the Windows Boot Drive (hosting the C:\ volume) may show as removeable media in Windows and how to override the behavior when necessary.

Network port enumeration on Windows Server 2022 with Dell network adapters may swap port designations.

An error occurs when attempting to apply default settings to a Dell Intel E810-2C Ethernet Adapter. These adapters are configured with Permit Total Port Shutdown enabled. Both ports have Port Option set to 4x25.

When in a SNAPI enabled configuration, the Dell Mellanox Ethernet and InfiniBand NICs may display 0000:0000:0000:0000 as the virtual node GUID for the second partition.

Firmware upgrades to Broadcom network devices may fail with a "libpci.so: Cannot open" error when run from a Smart Bootable ISO image created with Dell Repository Manager 3.x.

This article provides three methods to confirm the SSD Piece Part Identification (PPID)

After an update to 7.00.00.00 or higher, the iDRAC9 web server may become inaccessible where the user has uploaded a custom or CA signed web certificate.

The Dell HBA465e or HBA355e SAS host bus adapter (HBA) may be supplied as a drop in box (DIB) item alongside PowerEdge servers. This article provides direction on selecting an appropriate PCI-e slot.

If "Automatically restart" under System Failure is disabled inside Windows Server 2019 and 2022, a manual reboot is needed after a bug check or crash, but the system is rebooting automatically.

The PowerEdge 15G and 16G Intel Lewisburg C62xx Chipset Dell Update package (DUP) version 10.1.19485.8386, for Windows operating system, released as part of the December 2023 release (factory and web posting) includes non-signed components from Intel for Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC). The PowerEdge R6515/R7515 AMD Milan Chipset DUP version 2.18.30.202 (October 2023) was also found to include non-signed components from AMD for WDAC. The PowerEdge 14G Intel platform Chipset DUP package version 10.1.18807.8279 (#K69PV) targeted for the upcoming March 2024 block has been found to have the same issue with WDAC (enforced mode) as it includes non-signed components from Intel.