Dell XC Core XC770

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 Knowledge Base article explains the steps to take when the VxRail (Virtual Extensible Infrastructure) alarm VXR01406E / MYSTIC01406E – Virtual SAN (Storage Area Network) Health Alarm ‘Advanced Virtual SAN configuration in sync’ is triggered.

While performing the "RCM" upgrade, it is recommended to set the I/O priority for Rebuild, Rebalance, and Maintenance Mode Policy to unlimited.

PowerFlex Rebuild, Rebalance, and Maintenance policies that should be set before and after RCM upgrades.

Dell iDRAC9 and iDRAC10 remediations for an OpenSSH security vulnerability that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

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.

Dell iDRAC9 and iDRAC10 remediations for a Command Injection security vulnerability that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

Adding an SDS device fails with "A device with the given name already exists in the SDS"

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with Mellanox CX4-Lx or Mellanox CX5 network devices fail to complete Nutanix Life Cycle Manager (LCM) updates due to out-of-date firmware that requires an intermediate firmware update to be applied first.

Central Processing Unit (CPU) throttles to base frequency ~600 MHz in Cold Redundancy, temperature is normal; a LiteON Power Supply Unit (PSU) firmware issues an OCW‑related SMB alert, triggering a policy limiting CPU power.

Dell iDRAC9 and iDRAC10 remediations for an Information Disclosure security vulnerability that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

Dell iDRAC10 remediation for an avahi security vulnerability that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

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.

Kioxia CM6 NVMe SSDs on 17‑generation servers experience I2C (Inter‑Integrated Circuit) communication issues. The fan speed stays locked at 100 % after OS boot. This behavior is observed on 17G servers only running Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) 10 firmware version 1.30.10.50 or older.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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