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4K Native hard drive support with ESXi hosts

4K Native is an advanced format in which the physical sector and logical sectors are both 4,096 bytes in size. These drives provide large

memory dis space to servers and storage arrays. For ESXi 6.7.x, 4K Native hard drives are supported for booting and to store the data.

NOTE:

• 4K Native NVMe or SSD drives are not supported with ESXi 6.7.x.

• RDMs are not supported on 4k native drives.

Trusted Platform Module

Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is a hardware component which is designed to securely store information such as credential or

measurements. TPM 2.0 is enabled and supported with ESXi 6.7.x releases. ESXi 6.7.x introduced the Host Attestation feature using

which the validation of boot process can be reported to vCenter dashboard. TPM 2.0 is supported on all yx3x and yx4x Dell EMC

PowerEdge servers including the latest AMD processors.

NOTE: Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) support with TPM 2.0 is enabled with 6.7 U1 release and later.

Quick Boot

Prerequisite: See the System Requirements for Using Quick Boot During Remediation section in vSphere Update Manager Installation

and Administration Guide. It is recommended that you carefully assess the configuration before enabling Quick Boot.

Quick Boot of an ESXi host is a setting that allows Update Manager to optimize the remediation time of hosts that undergo patch and

upgrade operations. If the Quick Boot feature is enabled, Update Manager skips the hardware reboot (the BIOS or UEFI firmware reboot).

As a result, the time that is spent by ESXi host in Maintenance Mode is reduced, and the risk of failures during remediation is minimized.

Quick Boot is verified and is supported with a limited set of hardware platforms, and drivers. Quick Boot is not supported on ESXi hosts

that use TPM or pass-through features. For more information about ESXi 6.7.x, see vSphere Update Manager Installation and

Administration Guide at vmware.com/support/pubs.

Dell EMC supports Quick Boot on the following platforms:

• R630

• R640

• R740

• R740xd

• R740xd2

• R730

• R730xd

• R740xd vSAN Ready Node

• R640 vSAN Ready Node

NOTE:

For more information, see VMware KB article https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/52477 and

VMware vSphere

6.7.x on Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers Release Notes

Installing ESXi on flash media

After installing the SD card in your system, locate the ESXi installer media that you had created in Download the Dell EMC customized

ESXi image files on page 8.

To install ESXi on the flash media, complete the following steps:

NOTE:

For more information about supported configurations of the PowerEdge servers with the SD memory card, see

the

VMware vSphere 6.7.x on Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers Compatibility Matrix

at www.dell.com/

virtualizationsolutions.

NOTE: For instructions to install the SD memory card on the system board for supported PowerEdge servers, see the

system-specific Owner's Manual or Information Update at www.dell.com/poweredgemanuals.

1. Turn on the system.

Installing vSphere 6.7.x