I've had some interesting chats with the PM who owns these products and I'm fairly. One thing to note is that firmware for HBA's used by vSAN are patched on a few platforms with VUM now (Dell/Lenovo/SuperMicro/Fujitsu). Data Loss (no examples in this one and extremely rare, but these will also flag as urgent. Starting an ESXi host, configured with big memory size, might fail with purple diagnostic screen due to xmap allocation failureģ. Note, this isn't likely a big deal if you don't use the Virtual USB UHCI, but hey regular monthly patching for security is always a good idea. Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in the virtual USB UHCI Security (Example 6.5 Express patch 13 fixes aĮSXi contains an out-of-bounds read/write vulnerability and a Maybe, maybe not - that's probably up to VMware, not Dell.ġ. Even the free version it's pretty easy (3 lines of CLI, or can be done by HTML5 client). Unless you like outages or hackers I'd patch.
So just because they list it as urgent doesn't mean it IS urgent? We don't have vCenter - can't afford itĮSXi has regular security patches and bug fixes. The reality with driver fixes is that the ODM's are so secretive that if it's not in the release notes, you need to sign 3 NDA's and slaughter a goat to find out what was fixed in a driver (I say this as someone who actually gets to read these things from time to time). More likely it's a fix for a driver that can hang/crash. Rod-IT wrote:Maybe one of the drivers is vulnerable to attack VIB Depots for Dell and HPE offer the best of both worlds. Only updates tend to get an ISO's (Generally) so you will be missing patches that contain critical bug fixes and security fixes between them.ģ. If it breaks call the OEM that shipped it to you.Ģ. It could fix a bleeding edge issue, or introduce regressions. These drivers have not passed qualification/testing/code review to be an official VMware inbox driver. Vendor ISO's often contain ASYNC drivers. It's worth noting a few things about "only using vendor ISO's".ġ. Dell's stopped pushing drivers by VIBDepot and I suspect the only reason the custom ISO's will continue to exist (if at all) is for the OpenManage agent etc (That you can get from VIBDepot). I've heard that Dell is transitioning to only using Inbox drivers (and going through full cert/qualification). I only use the Dell media when installing ESXi or a major upgrade (6.0 to 6.5, etc), updates are all done by vCenter Update Manager. I don't know how often they update their media but it's just EP11.
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