Folks,
I can't give you case numbers, as that violates out corporate policy.
This is what I know:
Dell's R815 3.0.4 BIOS causes PSOD in VMware. Downgrading to 2.9.0 with ALL of the other firmwares in the server left up-to-date causes no issues, and ALL of the R815s (a large number of them) are running without issue.
[I build Linux bootable ISOs with ALL possible firmware for the R815 platform and update everything when updaing servers.]
Dell contacted me and asked if I'd "enter the BIOS Settings for the Processor and set C1E to disabled."
I did not do this as I'm not rebooting production hosts to reflash the BIOS with 3.0.4 and then play with flags in hopes that the systems will not PSOD.
Some of the R815s would [with thw 3.0.4 BIOS] expolde quickly (PSOD) and others took a week or so. This means that helping Dell would be a severe resource drain.
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