Users Guide

Table Of Contents

ESXi

Topics:

• Set up

•

Storage

• Supported Guest OSes with NVDIMM support

• Overall Health Status

• Operational and Diagnostics Logging information

• NVDIMM-N Errors

• ESXi Errata

Set up

Beginning with ESXi version 6.7 NVDIMM-N hardware is supported. The NVDIMM-N devices will be detected on startup with

auto-generated namespaces. All NVDIMM-N devices will have capacity pooled into a single logical memory array for access by

ESXi virtual machines.

NVDIMM-N Hardware is now supported on ESXi 6.7U1. Features and functionality should be identical to ESXi 6.7

Firmware requirements:

Table 13. Firmware requirements

Firmware Minimum Required Versions

T640, R640, R740, R740XD,

R940

R840, R940xa MX740c, MX840c

IDRAC 3.15.15.15 3.19.19.19 3.20.20.20

BIOS 1.3.7 1.1.1 1.0.0

NVDIMM-N 9324 9324 9324

Please locate your product on support.dell.com to locate update packages for any of these firmware bundles.

Hardware requirements:

ESXi currently only supports NVDIMM-N hardware when the host system has an Intel Xeon™ Gold (51xx, 61xx) or Platinum

(81xx) processor SKUs. Silver and Bronze SKUs are not sufficient for ESXi solution support at this time, but may be added in the

future.

For BIOS Setup, default Persistent Memory settings can be used. However, both Non-Interleaved and Interleaved settings are

supported by ESXi.

When adding a new VM to the ESXi host, follow these steps:

1. Click on “Add other device” and select “NVDIMM” from the menu.

2. Select the total capacity in MB of persistent memory you wish to expose to the VM.

● Size should not exceed total NVDIMM-N capacity in the host system.

Storage

Modules

Below picture shows how the NVDIMM-N devices will appear in the Persistent Memory tab under the Storage heading in

the left menu bar. The first column is an ID to uniquely identify the NVDIMM-N in the event the information is needed for

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