Dell EMC XC Series XC6420 Appliance

Dell EMC Server Platform Security Advisory for the monthly and 2020.2 Intel Platform Updates (November 2020) contains remediation for Dell EMC PowerEdge server that may be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

This article provides information about the Intel ME and Intel TXE Advisory (INTEL-SA-00086) relation to Dell PowerEdge products.

Summary of the enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) mode

NVP-vProxy: Image recovery to VxRail failing when VMware stops the operation because datastore is marked as out of space.

PowerEdge connected Dell NVMe SSDs with the Limited Retry (LR) bit set may experience an increase in failures due to elevated media and data‑integrity error rates.

Dell Micron 7450 and 7500 Non-Volatile Memory Express solid state drives may encounter drive initialization failure due to a firmware issue, resulting in the solid state drives being unrecoverable.

PowerEdge servers crash with PCIe fatal errors while updating Kioxia CM6 NVMe drive firmware.

Seagate Skybolt and SkyboltServoBP drive fails with medium format corrupted errors.

How to create Cluster Shared Volumes by manually calculating the necessary disk space value.

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.

This article explains how to perform a password management task in VCF environment when it is not possible with the error: "Password management operation failed in prevalidation stage"

Learn how the MyService360 services analytics dashboard integrates the Dell AIOps (formerly CloudIQ) Health Score into the Install Base views. This integration streamlines services and product health management by IT admins using the MyService360 and Dell AIOps portals. Verify supported products by portal and access helpful Dell AIOps resources.

XC nodes that are equipped with Mellanox CX4-Lx or Mellanox CX5 network devices fail to complete Nutanix Life Cycle Manager (LCM) updates due to out-of-date firmware that requires an intermediate firmware update to be applied first.

When spare capacity in PowerFlex is smaller than the size of the largest Fault Set, PowerFlex alerts the user. Increasing the spare capacity helps clear this alert.

A power‑off occurs when the inlet temperature exceeds the critical limit because the alert action is configured to shut down; the temperature condition itself does not trigger an automatic shutdown.

iDRAC Service Module (iSM) versions 4.0.1 and earlier for VMware ESXi may stop functioning and the dcism service stop if the core hostd service of the ESXi host was recently restarted.

Life Cycle Manager (LCM) support for Windows Server 2019 with Hyper-V has been purposefully and knowingly removed temporarily from the currently shipping LCM version 2.4.1.

This article explains how to install and use the MVCLI MVSETUP BOSS-S1 Utility.

Security Scan run against an XC Series solution may report a CVE-2013-4786 vulnerability against the iDRAC.

This article provides the latest Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 9 (iDRAC9) firmware version available for Dell PowerEdge servers, Datacenter Scalable Solutions (DSS), Precision Rack workstations, Storage NX network-attached storage, XC Core Systems, and XC Series Hyper-C appliances.

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.

This article outlines how to create a firmware baseline, view compliance reports, and apply updates in Dell OpenManage Enterprise.

Dell iDRAC9 and iDRAC10 remediations are available for OpenSSL vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

This article explains the procedure to open a Service Request (SR) using the Dell support page. Get help fast for your Dell device. No more waiting on hold. No more tech headaches. Dell makes it simple to fix problems, schedule repairs, or get support—right from your device or our support website.

Dell EMC Server Platform Intel Platform Updates (2019.2) to address multiple vulnerabilities which may potentially be exploited to compromise the system.

Dell EMC Server Platform Security Advisory for Intel Platform Updates (December) to address multiple vulnerabilities which may be potentially exploited to compromise the system.

Dell EMC Server Platform Security Advisory for Intel SA-00329 – Intel® Processors Data Leakage Advisory - CVE-2020-0548, CVE-2020-0549

DSA-2020-145: Dell EMC Server Platform Security Advisory for the 2020.1 Intel Platform Updates (June 2020) - CVE-2020-0528, CVE-2020-0529, CVE-2020-0545

Best Practices for performing major or minor upgrades on ESXi in XC products.