Release Notes

Fault-tolerant Shared PERC8 controller LUNs redundancy
status displays as partial or no-redundant
Description: In VMware vCenter Storage Views Section, Dell PowerEdge VRTX’s Fault-tolerant
Shared PERC8 controller LUNs redundancy status displays as partial or no-
redundant.
Applies to: ESXi 5.x
Solution: VMware vCenter Client displays incorrect status. Refer to the Dell PowerEdge VRTX
CMC storage controller page to view the actual redundancy status.
ESXi does not support Cluster on Die Snoop Mode
Description: On Dell’s 13th generation of PowerEdge servers, ESXi does not support Cluster
on Die Snoop Mode under Memory Settings on BIOS setup page.
Applies to: ESXi 5.x
Solution: This is known behavior with ESXi and Processor Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 series. For
more information, refer to the VMware Knowledge Base article 2087032.
ESXi 5.5.x host may display PSOD when configured for
vDGA with NVIDIA GPUs
Description: On ESXi 5.5.x host, the VMs with guest OS Windows 7 or Windows 8 64-bit stop
responding when configured for vDGA with NVIDIA GPUs.
Applies to: ESXi 5.x
Solution: This is a known issue with GPU device passthrough. For more information, refer to
the VMware Knowledge Base article 2092964.
IDSDM rebuilding on Dell’s 13th generation of PowerEdge
servers
Description: On Dell’s 13th generation of PowerEdge servers, the SD rebuild of IDSDM (Internal
Dual SD Module) operation is performed in the background.
Applies to: Dell’s 13th generation of PowerEdge servers
Solution: Dell’s 13th generation IDSDM does not require BIOS POST to wait for SD rebuild to
complete. Rebuild happens in background and is much faster as compare to Dell’s
12th generation of PowerEdge servers.
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