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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.
Updated: June 25, 2026
ID: 000225254
This is a firmware catalog which contains validated and certified firmware stack for selected Dell VMware vSAN Ready Nodes.
Updated: June 24, 2026
ID: 000183111
This article explains the requirements to deploy VMware ESXi 9 virtual machines with 4Kn end‑to‑end (E2E) storage when using Dell PowerEdge PERC12 (H965) and newer controllers. It also covers how to identify when ESXi is using 4Kn software emulation (SWE) instead of true 4Kn E2E, and what conditions prevent E2E.
Updated: June 26, 2026
ID: 000467282
This knowledge base article offers a detailed guide for troubleshooting Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0, Secure Boot, and ESXi-related issues on Dell servers. It provides step-by-step instructions to address common problems, ensuring the proper functioning and security of your server.
Updated: June 25, 2026
ID: 000218542
Dell's firmware catalogs for customized versions of Dell's VMware ESXi 8.x releases. When the Dell customized ESXi versions are used along with corresponding firmware catalogs, the end to end required state is achieved.
Updated: June 25, 2026
ID: 000225273
This KB explains how to put a node into MM prior to reboot.
Updated: June 25, 2026
ID: 000021829
When running the nvidia-smi command, you may encounter a driver error stating that "nvidia-smi has failed because it could not communicate with the NVIDIA driver.
Updated: June 24, 2026
ID: 000252982
This article provides different methods to get the iDRAC IP address of your PowerEdge servers directly from the VMware ESXi host. It is useful when you do not have physical access to the server.
Updated: June 23, 2026
ID: 000143172
This article contains a Dell VMware NVMe LED Management, Technical white paper about NVMe Hot-Plug on Dell PowerEdge servers running VMware vSphere or vSAN.
Updated: June 03, 2026
ID: 000125986
This article describes a cause for hostd service on ESXi to be non-responsive, and cause the server to become unresponsive to management operations from vCenter. The particular scenarios where this happens is when NFC operations such as backup or replication jobs are performed on disks with an IO filter attached.
Updated: June 02, 2026
ID: 000219067
How to Identify the physical slot number in iDRAC based off the device name in vSphere/VSAN.
Updated: June 01, 2026
ID: 000179543
This article provides how to replace vSAN capacity disk. In the vSAN environment using SSD and hard disk drives together, the SSD used as the cache memory is called the Cache Disk, the hard drive used as the data space is called the Capacity Disk.
Updated: June 01, 2026
ID: 000122008
When ESXi hosts have the "Log Urgent Traces To Syslog" option enabled, urgent vSAN diagnostic traces are sent to the syslog target. This causes Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight) to ingest excessive vsantraceurgent logs.
Updated: May 29, 2026
ID: 000459275
This is a general troubleshooting guide to help identifying if there is a problem with a physical disk in vSAN Clusters.
Updated: May 29, 2026
ID: 000209262
This article explains Dell guidelines on company administrator assignment.
Updated: May 24, 2026
ID: 000379388
This article explains how to assign an Initial Company Administrator.
Updated: May 23, 2026
ID: 000374134
This article explains how to promote Company Administrators.
Updated: May 23, 2026
ID: 000374126
This KB is to provide information about Dell customized VMware ESXi support stance on the Dell 17th generation of PowerEdge servers. The 17th generation of PowerEdge servers is based on Intel® Xeon® 6500P/6700P (Granite Rapids SP) and AMD EPYC™ 9005 Series Processor (Turin).
Updated: May 23, 2026
ID: 000334057
This article helps with locating and downloading the older versions of Dell Customized ISOs for ESXI on the Dell Support Site.
Updated: May 21, 2026
ID: 000238184
Warning messages regarding "icen_SetRxQueueFilter" and "Failed to add cloud filter" in ESXi 8 VMware VMkernel log.
Updated: May 21, 2026
ID: 000228397
Observing frequent nmlx5_en_L2TableIndexAdd/Remove events generated by the Mellanox nmlx5 driver in the ESXi VMkernel log.
Updated: May 21, 2026
ID: 000225826
NVIDIA Bluefield Data Processing Units (DPUs) show an option to enable VMware Distributed Services Engine (DSE) in Device Level Configuration of Device Setup.
Updated: May 21, 2026
ID: 000225111
Failed to power on VMware virtual machine (VM) on R7525 with NVIDIA A40/L40 GPUs and 2.14.1 BIOS
Updated: May 20, 2026
ID: 000223583
Dell PowerEdge server with a Broadcom BCM57414 PCIe adapter could encounter intermittent network-disconnected problem in a VMware NSX-T environment.
Updated: May 20, 2026
ID: 000223469
Dell Intel E810-C adapters do not support disabling the Virtual Machine Device Queue (VMDQ) loopback feature using "Intnetcli" tool.
Updated: May 20, 2026
ID: 000223462
VMware vCenter registration may fail in OMEVV 1.3 with a custom certificate chain installed in OpenManage Enterprise (OME) or vCenter.
Updated: May 20, 2026
ID: 000223404
Dell PowerEdge 16G: VMware vSphere Error: Skipping interrupt routing entry with bad device number: 176
Updated: May 20, 2026
ID: 000223051
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.
Updated: May 20, 2026
ID: 000222793
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.
Updated: May 20, 2026
ID: 000221985
Dell SAS SSD models SS530 and SS540, when used as a VMware vSAN cache tier, show accelerated write endurance loss.
Updated: May 19, 2026
ID: 000218401