Latest VMware ESXi Patche #3

VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 3 has been released this week also VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 3 was released last month. VMware has released new patch to fix bugs in vSphere 6.5.

Which Bugs Have Been Fixed?

This patch updates the esx-base, esx-tboot, vsan and vsanhealth VIBs to resolve the following issue:

• PR 2379650: An API call to configure the number of queues and worlds of a driver might cause an ESXi hosts to fail with a purple diagnostic screenYou can use the SCSIBindCompletionWorlds() method to set the the number of queues and worlds of a driver. However, if you set the numQueues parameter to higher than 1 and the numWorlds parameter to equal or lower than 1, the API call might return without releasing the lock held. This results in a deadlock and the ESXi host might fail with a purple diagnostic screen. This issue is resolved in this release.

Build Details

Bulletins

Rollup Bulletin

This rollup bulletin contains the latest VIBs with all the fixes since the initial release of ESXi 6.5.

Image Profiles

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