VMware ESXi 7.x

This article helps with locating and downloading the older versions of Dell Customized ISOs for ESXI on the Dell Support Site.

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.

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.

This is a general troubleshooting guide to help identifying if there is a problem with a physical disk in vSAN Clusters.

This article explains Dell guidelines on company administrator assignment.

This article explains how to assign an Initial Company Administrator.

This article explains how to promote Company Administrators.

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

NVIDIA Bluefield Data Processing Units (DPUs) show an option to enable VMware Distributed Services Engine (DSE) in Device Level Configuration of Device Setup.

Failed to power on VMware virtual machine (VM) on R7525 with NVIDIA A40/L40 GPUs and 2.14.1 BIOS

Dell PowerEdge server with a Broadcom BCM57414 PCIe adapter could encounter intermittent network-disconnected problem in a VMware NSX-T environment.

Dell Intel E810-C adapters do not support disabling the Virtual Machine Device Queue (VMDQ) loopback feature using "Intnetcli" tool.

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

Dell PowerEdge 16G: VMware vSphere Error: Skipping interrupt routing entry with bad device number: 176

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 SAS SSD models SS530 and SS540, when used as a VMware vSAN cache tier, show accelerated write endurance loss.

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."

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.

This article explains how to resolve a situation where a Virtual Machine (VM) fails to power on due to issues with a disk consolidation or snapshot.

VMware changed the parameter name from "Noopinterval" to "NoopOutInterval," to better align with industry standards. This parameter change was made during their transition from vCLI going EOL to esxcli and newer API call methods in 7.x ESXI. https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/92f8e15f-bf40-40f1-ba99-71ce1504eb77/6d9aeb6c-f524-419d-b6bc-2239a999b9d5/doc/cli_manage_iscsi_storage.7.8.html The error that is reported when the old parameter is used is "Unable to set parameters: Invalid parameter key"

Running Dell System Update (DSU) 2.0.0 for ESXi may fail with catalog download errors due to VMware ESXi 7 Update 3 adding default rulesets to block outgoing HTTP or NFS connections.

Dell System Update (DSU) 2.0.0 for VMware ESXi fails with "Inventory file not found" error if the "--use-idrac-passthrough" option is not specified at launch.

Lockdown mode is used to increase the security of the ESXi hosts by limiting the access that is allowed to the hosts.

There is no ESXi 8.x Driver support for the SPERC on VRTX.

Information about how drives behind a PERC are NOT detected in Windows/VMware ESXi Installation if Firmware Device Order (FDO) is enabled.

An ESXi server or a node that is part of a vSAN cluster may report purple screen with the message "…disk name: naa.5000xxxxxxxxx detected suspended I/Os…" or may report all drives that are attached to an HBA are missing.

This KB explains how to perform the WSFC conversion at a high-level. It also covers converting an Oracle RAC environment from RDMs to shared VMDKs on NVMe/TCP, even though Oracle RAC does not require SCSI3‑PR. Oracle RAC can run on an SDC‑based VMFS datastore, but because PowerFlex does not support Clustered VMDK on SDC‑based VMFS, SCSI3‑PR‑dependent applications cannot use that configuration. Oracle RAC explanations are also high-level.

A small script to check the visible vSphere basic inventory for a specified username leveraging PowerCLI. This is an alternative to logging in with the user into the vCenter UI and collecting data manually.

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.

Dell customers may report an unrecoverable hardware error on POST with configurations including a certain mix of Mellanox firmware, BIOS, and iDRAC versions. While the issue was reported on VMware with CX-5 cards, other Dell/Mellanox hardware may be affected.