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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 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
FCoE session issues due to Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) packets sent by Virtual Machines. Issue can cause interface flapping, or no problems are seen until any manual action that causes LLDP to renumerate triggering the issue.
Updated: July 15, 2026
ID: 000203012
This guide covers the basic steps of installing and configuring VMware ESXi on Dell Servers. This article also covers upgrading, downgrading, and combining VMware licenses, as well as installing VMware drivers, Dell tools, and generating VMware support bundles.
Updated: July 13, 2026
ID: 000231616
This article provides information about RVTools 4.8.1. It gives guidance on the downloadable .msi, Checksum, and Release Notes.
Updated: July 07, 2026
ID: 000325532
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
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
Observing frequent nmlx5_en_L2TableIndexAdd/Remove events generated by the Mellanox nmlx5 driver in the ESXi VMkernel log.
Updated: May 21, 2026
ID: 000225826
This is a firmware catalog which contains validated and certified firmware stack for selected Dell VMware vSAN Ready Nodes based on Dell customized ESXi 7.x branch Images.
Updated: May 21, 2026
ID: 000225253
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
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
This article shows how to resolve an issue where vSphere 7.0 shows Persistent Memory (NVDIMM-N) as "0 MB" after a DIMM error, Persistent Memory (PMEM) namespace shows as "Not in Use."
Updated: May 17, 2026
ID: 000211598
Dell System Update (DSU) 2.x on VMware ESXi fails with "Unknown error occurred" when run on 13th-generation servers instead of initially stopping due to 13G and older systems not being supported.
Updated: May 16, 2026
ID: 000210070