VxRail Software

DSA-2020-147: Dell Server Platform Security Advisory for the 2020.1 Intel Platform Updates (June 2020) - Intel SSD - CVE-2020-0527

Dell EMC guidance to mitigate risk and resolution for the iDRAC multiple vulnerabilities. For specific information about affected iDRAC versions and next steps to apply the updates, see this guide.

VxRail Manager is not properly handling resources, and may cause a vCenter crash.

VxRail Manager Appliance View shows "No Hosts Available" when bandwidth throttling is changed from the default advanced setting to NONE.

Multiple hosts seeing high CRC errors leading to vSAN latency.

Due to a virtual machine (VM) Guest OS setting for the VxRail Manager VM in VxRail releases 7.0.010 and the way vCenter identifies the Guest OS a list of VM warnings is triggered while performing compute vMotion. The warnings do not prevent manual or automated DRS vMotion.

Disk replacement might fail as new disk was not discovered.

Due to a known VMware issue in the virtual storage area network (vSAN) Witness, the internal OEM license of the vSAN Witness becomes unavailable. This leaves the Virtual Witness host in an eval/expired licensing state. This affects VxRail stretched clusters upgrading from 4.5.xxx and 4.7.xxx to 7.0.xxx, no known VMware and VxRail release contains a fix.

When a Dell VxRail system was previously upgraded from 4.5.xxx to 4.7.xxx to 7.0.0xx. There is a known VMware vCenter upgrade issue causing upgrade failure to 7.0.10x. The VMware fix is incorporated in 7.0.130 enabling this upgrade path.

Event code: VXR500PDR1116 This event code indicates "Drive <number> is removed."

Event code: VXR500PST0130 This event code indicates "Memory is configured, but not usable."

Event code: VXR500PST0129 This event code indicates "Memory is detected, but is not configurable."

Event code: VXR500PDR20 This event code indicates "SMART configuration change for <PD Name>."

Event code: VXR500CTL12 This event code indicates "An invalid SAS configuration has been detected on <Controller name>. Details: <error message>"

Event code: VXR500PDR110 This event code indicates "The <PCIe solid state device name> reliability has degraded."

Event code: VXR500FAN0026 This event code indicates "The <sensor name> sensor detected an error with a value of <fan speed> RPM."

When the PS1010/PS1030 NVMe SSD or Samsung SATA 883/893 is installed, PSOD may occur during production or gathering operating system (OS) logs or TSR logs.

The VxRail upgrade on a cluster with vLCM enabled fails when it begins to upgrade the nodes. The error message received is "Failed getting host recommendation from DRS to enter maintenance mode for cluster."

Enabling Data-In-Transit Encryption on a vSAN Stretched Cluster causes the Witness Host to go into a partitioned state.

This is an informative article describing how to test Secure Remote Services or Secure Connect Gateway dial-home functionality available on VxRail 4.7.520 and later versions' plug-in UI.

After upgrading vCenter from 7.0U3 to 8.0U1c, Skyline Health triggers alert vSAN Cluster Configuration Consistency.

The intent of this KB is to provide the proper course of action to take when the notified mystic code MYSTIC014062/VXR014062 takes place.

Code upgrade may fail due to missing var/db/payloads/boot/useropts. This issue can also affect vLCM enablement in VxRail 8.0.31x.

Event VXR500BAT0021 indicates that the battery has reached the end of its life.

CMOS Battery replacements for Basic Warranty contracts are under warranty through Dell for up to 1 year. This article outlines how to order and replace CMOS batteries once these batteries are no longer under warranty and replaced by Dell.

Power Supply Unit (PSU) or Disk cannot be contacted on physical view of the VxRail Manager plug-in, but it is present and working everywhere else.

How to find the installed Security Technical Implementation Guidelines (STIG) version in a VxRail cluster.

VxRail license compliance prechecks before upgrading to 9.0.

vSphere 7.x and later ESXi host experiences a Purple Screen of Death (PSOD) creates a Zdump core dump that is auto‑encrypted. This happens when the host is using Virtual Machine encryption.

Dell PowerEdge Toshiba MG08 and MG09 hard drives may encounter uninterruptible Background Media Scanning (BMS), causing I/O errors, or timeouts.