ESXi 6.5: NVIDIA ConnectX-4 onwards NICs NATIVE ESXi Driver for VMware vSphere Release Notes v4.16.70.1
Linux Kernel Upstream Release Notes v6.5

Known Issues

The following is a list of general limitations and known issues of the various components of this MLNX-NATIVE-ESX release.

Internal Ref.

Description

2120216

Description: The maximum number of established active RDMA connections (QPs) is currently 5000.

Workaround: N/A

Keywords: QPs, RDMA

Discovered in Version: 4.16.70.1

2130911

Description: Setting ETS value to 0 may cause WQE timeout.

Workaround: Set ETS value of 1 instead of 0.

Keywords: ETS, QOS

Discovered in Version: 4.16.70.1

1446060

Description: Although the max_vfs module parameter range is "0-128", due to firmware limitations, the following are the supported VFs per single port devices:

  • ConnectX-4 / ConnectX-5: up to 127

Workaround: N/A

Keywords: SR-IOV, VFs per port

Discovered in Version: 4.16.14.2

1340275

Description: ECN tunable parameter initialAlphaValue for the Reaction Point protocol cannot be modified.

Workaround: N/A

Keywords: nmlx5 ecn nmlxcli

Discovered in Version: 4.16.13.5

1340255

Description: ECN statistic counters accumulatorsPeriod and

ecnMarkedRocePackets display wrong values and cannot be cleared.

Workaround: N/A

Keywords: nmlx5 ecn nmlxcli

Discovered in Version: 4.16.13.5

-

Description: The hardware can offload only up to 256B of headers.

Workaround: N/A

Keywords: Hardware offload

Discovered in Version: 4.16.10.3

685558

Description: There is no traffic between PV and SR-IOV VF connected to different ports on the same HCA. This issue is applicable to ESXi 6.5 & ESXi 6.5 UP1. The issue is solved in ESXi 6.5 UP2.

Workaround: N/A

Keywords: PV, SR-IOV VF, HCA

858972

Description: Setting the "Allow Guest MTU Change" option in vSphere Client is currently not functional. Although guest MTU changes in SR-IOV are allowed, they do not affect the port's MTU and the guest's MTU remains the same as the PF MTU.

Workaround: N/A

Keywords: MTU, SR-IOV

-

Description: Geneve options length support is limited to 56B. Received packets with options length bigger than 56B are dropped.

WA: N/A

Keywords: Geneve

910292

Description: Running with ConnectX-4/ConnectX-4 Lx older firmware versions, might result in the following internal firmware errors:

  • Device health compromised

  • synd 0x1: firmware internal error

  • extSync 0x94ee

Workaround: Upgrade your firmware to the latest version 12.17.2020/14.17.2020

Keywords: Firmware

746100

Description: The 'esxcli mellanox uplink link info -u <vmnic_name>'

command reports the 'Auto negotiation' capability always as 'true'.

Workaround: N/A

Keywords: 'Auto negotiation' capability

1072640

Description: ESXi v4.16.10.3 cannot updated from v4.16.8.8 (GA) or from the Inbox driver using the "esxcli software vib update" command.

Workaround: To update it, run the "esxcli software vib install" command.

Keywords: Driver update

1068621

Description: SMP MADs (ibnetdiscover, sminfo, iblinkinfo, smpdump, ibqueryerr, ibdiagnet and smpquery) are not supported on the VFs.

Workaround: N/A

Keywords: SMP MADs

778371

Description: Wake-on-LAN does not notify when invalid parameters are provided.

Workaround: N/A

Keywords: WoL

778572

Description: Nested ESXi might not function properly.

Workaround: N/A

Keywords: Nested ESXi

765008

Description: Device RSS fails to hash traffic to sufficient RX rings with Broadcast traffic.

Workaround: N/A

Keywords: RSS, RX rings

852883

Description: In stress condition ‘Watchdog’ may appear, leading to uplink going up and down.

Workaround: N/A

Keywords: uplink, watchdog

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