VMware ESXi 8.x

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.

This is a firmware catalog which contains validated and certified firmware stack for selected Dell VMware vSAN Ready Nodes.

How to download and install Dell Customized VMware ESXi images for PowerEdge servers. Find step-by-step instructions and details on drivers, patches, and ISO availability.

vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) health check can label Virtual LAN (VLAN) or Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) as “Not Supported” if uplinks have varied VLANs, MTU mismatches, or VLAN None groups; mitigate by disabling it or ensure VLAN/MTU support.

How to debug the ESXi Machine Check Exception (MCE) purple diagnostic screen (PSOD) with an example.

How to install OpenManage Server Administrator VIB (OMSA) on VMware ESXi 5.x or VMware ESXi 6.x to collect system logs.

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.

Broadcom network device BCM57608 is not initialized and detected on Dell customized VMware ESXi 8.x and 9.0. This KB is to detail the issue, and the solutions offered.

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.

This KB is to provide information about the support stance for PCIe Multi-Segment feature support on Dell PowerEdge servers running VMware ESXi.

Lifecycle in iDRAC is showing 'watchdog timer expired' alerts on nodes running ESXi.

This article explains how to assign an Initial Company Administrator.

In VMware ESXi, vCenter and vSAN environments, it is noted that "Hardware Compatibility" page in vCenter shows "PCIe Switch management endpoint" as an unknown device. The presence of the unknown device may result in cluster remediation failure resulting in unable to upgrade ESXi hosts using VMware Life-Cycle Manager (vLCM).

This article describes how to gather the necessary log files to troubleshoot a vSphere Tanzu issue.

This article explains how to troubleshoot VMware vSphere ESXi storage (iSCSI/Fibre Channel) issues.

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.

This article provides instructions on how the user inputs their recovery key after system board or TPM replacement on an ESXi host.

This is a great practice to do before making any changes, such as working on SSL certs, Postgres database updates, or pod and node operations. Taking a snapshot ensures that you can revert back to the original state if required.

This best practice guidance is aimed at Dell XC Series Appliances and XC Core Systems configured to boot VMware ESXi from either a SATADOM or a Boot Optimized Server Storage (BOSS) controller card.

This article explains how to promote Company Administrators.

How to downgrade PERC driver using the ESXi command line

This article explains Dell guidelines on company administrator assignment.

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.

Using iDRAC tools to interact with iDRAC when it is not reachable using Web Browser. It may happen that after an iDRAC firmware upgrade, the iDRAC is not reachable but GuestOS is reachable. In that case, use iDRAC tools to troubleshoot the issue and bring it back online.

Dell Custom VMware ESXi remediation is available for multiple security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

VMware Storage vMotion and VMware vSphere Storage APIs Array Integration (VAAI) Extended Copy (XCOPY) is not supported with Live Volumes.

If ESXi hosts use Trusted Platform Module (TPM), this article provides steps to take while the ESXi host is still accessible over SSH before any hardware changes.

vCenter enables Active Directory (AD) and login by Active Directory users have notification "Password will expire in X days," customer must eliminate it.

This KB explains how to put a node into MM prior to reboot.

Several requests regarding custom ISOs for the latest VMware patch releases for ESXi 7.0 and ESXi 8.0 have been received. The new VMware patch includes critical security updates for vulnerabilities CVE-2025-22224, CVE-2025-22225, and CVE-2025-22226. VMSA-2025-0004 is the official Broadcom article number which is commonly use to explain the issue to Tech Support.