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Dell EMC Poweredge Systems Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Release Notes Dell EMC PowerEdge Systems Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Release Notes May 2021 Rev. A08 Notes, cautions, and warnings NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your product. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. © 2014-2021 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Dell, EMC, and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other trademarks may be trademarks of their respective owners. Contents Chapter 1: Release summary..........................................................................................................7 Version....................................................................................................................................................................................7 Release date..........................................................................................................................................................................7 Priority and recommendations..........................................................................................................................................7 Chapter 2: Compatibility............................................................................................................... 8 System configuration requirements................................................................................................................................ 8 Memory............................................................................................................................................................................ 8 Chapter 3: New and enhanced in RHEL 7.x release........................................................................ 9 Installation and upgrade instructions.............................................................................................................................. 9 Chapter 4: Fixes...........................................................................................................................10 The mcelog utility logs 'only decoding architectural errors' message in var/log/messages...........................10 An error message is displayed when the internal SATA optical drive is empty during UEFI boot..................10 FCoE session is not reestablished after MX9116N switch is rebooted..................................................................11 Disk drives part of MD RAID are not listed as installation destination by the installer...................................... 11 Dell EMC OpenManage Storage Services utility fails to reconfigure the virtual disk........................................ 11 Operating system crashes when twenty DIMMs are connected to the server and the number of I/O operations is high...........................................................................................................................................................12 Dell EMC Express Flash Enterprise NVMe CD6/CM6 device is not detected by the kernel..........................13 Dell EMC PowerEdge Express Flash Enterprise NVMe Agnostic (AGN) device is not detected by the operating system............................................................................................................................................................13 IO_PAGE_FAULT messages are displayed in dmesg for PCIe Generation 4 devices.......................................13 Dell EMC PowerEdge Express Flash Enterprise NVMe Agnostic (AGN) device causes the system to stop responding..............................................................................................................................................................14 Transmit and receive statistics are reported as zero by the ip tool for Broadcom BCM57504 adapters... 14 Dmesg displays error messages when Broadcom BCM57504 25GB is used on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8...........................................................................................................................................................................15 Chapter 5: Important notes......................................................................................................... 16 Chapter 6: Known issues.............................................................................................................. 17 Intel E810 NIC interfaces are not functional on AMD Rome CPU based systems.............................................19 acpi_pad threads are not spawned as expected when power capping is enabled in iDRAC...........................19 Dell Controlled Turbo feature is not functional...........................................................................................................19 The dmidecode utility displays the slot type as <OUT OF SPEC> for PCIe Gen 4 NVMe slots....................20 Access Vector Cache (AVC) denial messages are displayed when NVMe disk is hot inserted.....................20 QLogic Gen7 Fibre Channel cards are not detected with in-box drivers............................................................ 20 Linux operating system fails to detect the Intel x710 card .....................................................................................21 After system reboot, Disk data format (DDF) devices are not listed in /proc/mdstat....................................21 System crashes when rebooted with SR-IOV-enabled QLogic cards...................................................................21 Dmidecode displays OUT OF SPEC in Slot Type and Slot Length of SMBIOS system slots ........................ 22 Custom partitioning fails with FC LUN........................................................................................................................ 22 Contents 3 iscsiadm output displays STATIC in the iface.bootproto field when the network interface is configured to DHCP..................................................................................................................................................... 22 When system reboots, system stops responding at the end of the reboot process .......................................23 NMI watchdog reports CPU soft lockup ....................................................................................................................23 Unable to create or modify namespace for NVDIMM.............................................................................................. 23 Chipset watchdog device is not created when the OS Watchdog Timer option is enabled in BIOS .......... 24 Systems with QLogic Cards that are configured with VLAN over Bond fail to shutdown or reboot...........24 NetworkManager fails to bring up VLAN interface created over Bond interface.............................................24 NMI message is displayed on Dell EMC AMD systems with NVMe SSDs...........................................................25 Booting into OS with the QLogic FastLinQ QL41000 card setup with iscsi offload logs multiple error messages related to iSCSI session........................................................................................................................... 25 Kernel panic occurs when FCoE function is enabled in QL41000 series adapters............................................25 Network throughput may not be as expected on Broadcom 25 GB or QLogic 25 GB network cards........26 Kernel panic occurs with AMD processors on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4.....................................................26 Turbostat displays an input/output error with AMD processor.............................................................................26 qede driver probe fails when NIC+RDMA is enabled NPAR-EP partitions in QL41xxx cards.........................26 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 with QLogic QL41xxx rNDC cards ping fails.........................................................27 SRIOV VFs of Mellanox cards interfaces are named incorrectly........................................................................... 27 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 and 7.5 display an error message related to softhsm tokens.......................... 27 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 displays an error message while searching for a query in Tracker.....................27 NVMe drive model is displayed as unknown in parted............................................................................................. 28 System Monitor displays incorrect number of CPUs............................................................................................... 28 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 installation may cause Machine Check Errors.........................................................28 Caps Lock LED status is always off in CLI..................................................................................................................28 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 displays incorrect welcome message........................................................................ 29 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 displays black screen after iSCSI installation using QLogic QL4xxx cards with out-of-box drivers ...................................................................................................................................29 Unable to discover iSCSI LUN during Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 installation with Intel X-550 cards....... 29 Unable to shut down Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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