VMware ESXi 6.5, Patch Release ESXi650-201811002 - Build 10884925

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  • PR 2119609: Migration of a virtual machine with a Filesystem Device Switch (FDS) on a VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes datastore by using VMware vSphere vMotion might cause multiple issues

    If you use vSphere vMotion to migrate a virtual machine with file device filters from a vSphere Virtual Volumes datastore to another host, and the virtual machine has either of the Changed Block Tracking (CBT), VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache (VFRC), or IO filters enabled, the migration might cause issues with any of the features. During the migration, the file device filters might not be correctly transferred to the host. As a result, you might see corrupted incremental backups in CBT, performance degradation of VFRC and cache IO filters, corrupted replication IO filters and disk corruption, when cache IO filters are configured in write-back mode. You might also see issues with the virtual machine encryption.

    Тhis issue is resolved in this release.

  • PR 2142767: VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes might become unresponsive if a vSphere API for Storage Awareness provider loses binding information from its database

    vSphere Virtual Volumes might become unresponsive due to an infinite loop that loads CPUs at 100% if a vSphere API for Storage Awareness provider loses binding information from its database. Hostd might also stop responding. You might see a fatal error message. This fix prevents infinite loops in case of database binding failures.

    This issue is resolved in this release.

One of the tricky problems observed with using VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) has been knowing what issues with vVols or VASA (vSphere API for Storage Awareness) are fixed in which releases of ESXi. VMware provides fairly detailed release notes for each ESXi patch and update releases. This KB's goal is to compile a list of all vVols or VASA related fixes by ESXi Release.