An intermittent timing issue on the ESXi host side might cause NSX installation or upgrade in a vSphere environment with DPUs to fail. In the nsxapi.log file you see logs such as Failed to get SFHC response. MessageType MT_SOFTWARE_STATUS.

When you try to mount an NFS 3 datastore with an IPv6 server address and VMkernel port binding by using an ESXCLI command, the task fails with an error such as:

[:~] esxcli storage nfs add -I fc00:xxx:xxx:xx::xxx:vmk1 -s share1 -v volume1

Validation of vmknic failed Instance(defaultTcpipStack, xxx:xxx:xx::xxx:vmk1) Input(): Not found:

The issue is specific for NFS 3 datastores with an IPv6 server address and VMkernel port binding.

If an active virtual machine has a PCI passthrough to a DPU at the time of shutdown or reboot of an ESXi host, the host fails with a purple diagnostic screen. The issue is specific for systems with DPUs and only in case of VMs that use PCI passthrough to the DPU.

Vendor Device Groups, which enable binding of high-speed networking devices and the GPU, are supported only on VMs with HW version 20 and later, but you are not prevented to configure a VM at HW version earlier than 20 with a Vendor Device Group. Such VMs might not work as expected: for example, fail to power-on.

When you have multiple mounts on an NFS server that is not accessible, ESXi retries connection to each mount for 30 seconds, which might add up to minutes of ESXi reboot delay, depending on the number of mounts.

vSphere 8.0 adds advanced NVMe-oF Discovery Service support in ESXi that enables the dynamic discovery of standards-compliant NVMe Discovery Service. ESXi uses the mDNS/DNS-SD service to obtain information such as IP address and port number of active NVMe-oF discovery services on the network. However, in ESXi servers with NVMe/TCP enabled, the auto discovery on networks configured to use vSphere Distributed Switch might fail. The issue does not affect NVMe/TCP configurations that use standard switches.

If you enable or disable SR-IOV with the icen driver on an ESXi host and configure a transport node in ENS Interrupt mode, some Rx (receive) queues might not work if you do not reboot the host. As a result, some virtual machines might not get DHCP addresses.

If you extract an image of an ESXi host deployed from a host profile with enabled stateful install to deploy other ESXi hosts in a vSphere Lifecycle Manager cluster, the operation fails. In the vSphere Client, you see an error such as A general system error occurred: Failed to extract image from the host: no stored copy available for inactive VIB VMW_bootbank_xxx. Extraction of image from host xxx.eng.vmware.com failed.

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