Релиз VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 3f/g

Компания VMware выпустила в середине июле vSphere 7.0 Update 3f, а уже через несколько дней выпустила исправление vCenter 7.0 Update 3g.

• VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 3f Release Notes
• VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 3g Release Notes
• VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3g Release Notes

По моим ощущениям, это первый релиз vSphere 7.0 Update 3, подходящий для продуктивных сред. Для понимания болячек и исправлений пришло время выпустить свежий обзор KB, предыдущие – Релиз VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 3с, Заметки в базе знаний VMware по платформе vSphere 7.0 Update 3:

• 3 vCLS Virtual Machines may be created in vSphere cluster with 2 ESXi hosts, when vCenter version is prior to 7.0 U3 (18700403) (88924)
• Updating vCenter to 7.0 U3 or higher fails when trying to start the vmware-eam service (88119)
• NVMe over RDMA storage becomes inaccessible after update to ESXi 7.0 U3c, U3d or U3e (88938)
• After upgrade/update to ESXi 7.0 U3x vpxa fails to start, resulting in ESXi being disconnected from vCenter with the error “Timed out waiting for vpxa to start” (87752)
• DLM_Free / Heap_Free PSOD in VLANMTUCheck Module (84359)
• Scanning ESXi hosts in Lifecycle Manager fails with the error “not_allowed_in_current_state” (88655)
• Errors 823/824 – SQL Server detected a logical consistency-based I/O error when VM is running on snapshot (88201)
• Older Linux Kernels can hang/lockup on APD or Heavy Loads when using adapter vNVME (88025)
• vCenter upgrade to 70u3f is unsuccessful because WCP service did not start (89010)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Virtual Machine with EFI firmware is incorrectly configured during the Virtual Machine creation (88255)
• “Exception occured in postInstallHook”, Secure Token Service (vmware-stsd) crash while performing vCenter Server Patching to 7.0 U3f (89027)
• vSAN high LLOG consumption leading to LogCongestion (88832)
• Mitigation Instructions for CVE-2022-21123, CVE-2022-21125, and CVE-2022-21166 (VMSA-2022-0016) (88632)
• Can’t enable vSAN RDMA in vSAN 7.0U3d release (88621)
• Application-Consistent Quiescing snapshot is not enabled by default for Windows Server 2022 (88402)
• vSAN node PSOD with vs_space_mgmt_map_fini in backtrace (84400)
• Lenovo – ESXi may fail to read the system power meter or other system health sensors via Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) (88405)
• Post upgrade to 7.0 U2, ESXi hosts do not show the vmkernel interfaces (84148)
• Guest OS Customization (Perl based) for AlmaLinux is not fully supported (cannot customize hostname and network) (85686)
• VMkernel might shut down virtual machines due to a vCPU timer issue (86075)
• Log congestion due to a single failed drive (88917)
• Cannot power-on a VM with the multi-writer flag on ESXi 7.0 (89159)
• Unable to download Trusted Roots Certificates for VCSA because it shows 0kb file. (89325)
• Cancelling a storage vMotion task causes a VM to crash (88957)
• The vpxd service crashes when its unable to connect to ESXi hosts with vpxuser credentials (87986)
• vSAN host enters PSOD state sporadically when Storage Accelerator and virtual NVMe controllers are used (89310)
• vCenter Server 7.0.x update fails due to invalid credentials (88885)
• Lookupservice may fail to start automatically after reboot in vCenter Server 7.0 after upgrade or update, manual start works (89163)
• ESXi remediation tasks against VLCM baselines in vCenter 7.0.3 finish without the host being actually patched (89435)