Release Notes

Known issues
Topics:
• Dell EMC OpenManage Storage Services utility fails to reconfigure the virtual disk
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The dmidecode utility displays the slot type as <OUT OF SPEC> for PCIe Gen 4 NVMe slots
• Operating system crashes when twenty DIMMs are connected to the server and the number of I/O operations is high
• Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) error messages displayed in dmesg
• Access Vector Cache (AVC) denial messages are displayed when NVMe disk is hot inserted
• IO_PAGE_FAULT messages are displayed in dmesg for PCIe Generation 4 devices
• QLogic Gen7 Fibre Channel cards are not detected with in-box drivers
• Linux operating system fails to detect the Intel x710 card
• After system reboot, Disk data format (DDF) devices are not listed in /proc/mdstat
• System crashes when the system is rebooted with SR-IOV-enabled QLogic cards
• Dmidecode displays OUT OF SPEC in Slot Type and Slot Length of SMBIOS system slots
• Custom partitioning fails with FC LUN
• iscsiadm output displays STATIC in the iface.bootproto field when the network interface is configured to DHCP
• When system reboots, system stops responding at the end of the reboot process
• NMI watchdog reports CPU soft lockup
• Unable to create or modify namespace for NVDIMM
• Chipset watchdog device is not created when the OS Watchdog Timer option is enabled in BIOS
• Systems with QLogic Cards that are configured with VLAN over Bond fail to shutdown or reboot
• NetworkManager fails to bring up VLAN interface created over Bond interface
• NMI message is displayed on Dell EMC AMD systems with NVMe SSDs
• Booting into OS with the QLogic FastLinQ QL41000 card setup with iscsi offload logs multiple error messages related to
iSCSI session
• Kernel panic occurs when FCoE function is enabled in QL41000 series adapters
• Network throughput may not be as expected on Broadcom 25 GB or QLogic 25 GB network cards
• Kernel panic occurs with AMD processors on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4
• Turbostat displays an input/output error with AMD processor
• qede driver probe fails when NIC+RDMA is enabled NPAR-EP partitions in QL41xxx cards
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 with QLogic QL41xxx rNDC cards ping fails
• SRIOV VFs of Mellanox cards interfaces are named incorrectly
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 and 7.5 display an error message related to softhsm tokens
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 displays an error message while searching for a query in Tracker
• NVMe drive model is displayed as unknown in parted
• System Monitor displays incorrect number of CPUs
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 installation may cause Machine Check Errors
• Caps Lock LED status is always off in CLI
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 displays incorrect welcome message
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 displays black screen after iSCSI installation using QLogic QL4xxx cards with out-of-box
drivers
• Unable to discover iSCSI LUN during Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 installation with Intel X-550 cards
• Unable to shut down Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 when you select Graceful shutdown option or when you press power
button on system
• Installer displays an exception when installing on an iSCSI disk using QLogic QL41000 qedi based drivers
• Progress bar is not displayed while copying a file from USB drive to Desktop
• Link flap messages are displayed during the device probe for QL41xxx devices
• ip link/ifconfig displays RX dropped packets for QL41xxx based interfaces
• dmesg displays debug messages for QL41xxx devices
• Drivers available in OEMDRV drive is not installed during the OS installation
• Unable to boot to iSCSI after enabling VLAN
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