Known Issues
The following is a list of general limitations and known issues of the various components of this MLNX-NATIVE-ESX release.
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1671303 |
Description: A PSOD may occur during vMotion over ENS VMK. This issue is pending VMWare investigation. |
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Workaround: N/A |
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Keywords: ENS, vMotion |
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Discovered in Version: 4.17.15.16 |
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1668029 |
Description: There is no Geneve traffic on NSX-T 2.3 when DVS is in standard (non- ENS) mode. |
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Workaround: Use NSX-T 2.2 for this scenario or use DVS in ENS mode with NSX-T 2.3 |
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Keywords: ENS, Geneve |
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Discovered in Version: 4.17.15.16 |
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1677627 |
Description: IPv6 as inner packet is not supported by VMWare yet. This capability will be added in next NSX-T release. |
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Workaround: N/A |
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Keywords: ENS, IPv6, Geneve |
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Discovered in Version: 4.17.15.16 |
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1682956 |
Description: During ENS uplink detachment from the ENS DVS, the below error message regarding the queue still being allocated or that the requested queue is not in use may appear. “Driver covers for OS issue and the messages are for information only.” |
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Workaround: N/A |
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Keywords: ENS, queue |
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Discovered in Version: 4.17.15.16 |
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1712298 |
Description: Live unload of the driver is not supported. Doing so may cause a PSOD if the max_vfs parameter is set. |
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Workaround: N/A |
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Keywords: Driver load |
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Discovered in Version: 4.17.15.16 |
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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:
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Workaround: N/A |
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Keywords: SR-IOV, VFs per port |
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Discovered in Version: 4.17.14.2 |
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1340275 |
Description: ECN tunable parameter initialAlphaValue for the Reaction Point protocol cannot be modified. |
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Workaround: N/A |
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Keywords: nmlx5 ecn nmlxcli |
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Discovered in Version: 4.17.13.8 |
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1340255 |
Description: ECN statistic counters accumulatorsPeriod and ecnMarkedRocePackets display wrong values and cannot be cleared. |
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Workaround: N/A |
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Keywords: nmlx5 ecn nmlxcli |
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Discovered in Version: 4.17.13.8 |
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Description: The hardware can offload only up to 256B of headers. |
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Workaround: N/A |
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Keywords: Hardware offload |
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Discovered in Version: 4.17.13.8 |
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781277 |
Description: The "esxcli network sriovnic vf stats" command is not supported. When running this command on a vmknic, a failure message is displayed. |
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Workaround: N/A |
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Keywords: esxcli SR-IOV |
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Discovered in Version: 4.17.13.8 |
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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. |
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Workaround: N/A |
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Keywords: MTU, SR-IOV |
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746100 |
Description: The 'esxcli mellanox uplink link info -u <vmnic_name>' command reports the 'Auto negotiation' capability always as 'true'. |
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Workaround: N/A |
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Keywords: 'Auto negotiation' capability |
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1068621 |
Description: SMP MADs (ibnetdiscover, sminfo, iblinkinfo, smpdump, ibqueryerr, ibdiagnet and smpquery) are not supported on the VFs. |
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Workaround: N/A |
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Keywords: SMP MADs |
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778371 |
Description: Wake-on-LAN does not notify when invalid parameters are provided. |
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Workaround: N/A |
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Keywords: WoL |
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778572 |
Description: Nested ESXi might not function properly. |
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Workaround: N/A |
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Keywords: Nested ESXi |
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765008 |
Description: Device RSS fails to hash traffic to sufficient RX rings with Broadcast traffic. |
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Workaround: N/A |
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Keywords: RSS, RX rings |
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852883 |
Description: In stress condition ‘Watchdog’ may appear, leading to uplink going up and down. |
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Workaround: N/A |
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Keywords: uplink, watchdog |