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HPE RL300 Gen11 iSCSI issue with Mellanox network card

  • 1.  HPE RL300 Gen11 iSCSI issue with Mellanox network card

    Posted Sep 19, 2025 04:15 PM

    Hello,

    We have a cluster of two HPE RL300 Gen11 with Ampere Altra CPU working perfectly on version 7. With iSCSI connected to our SAN + functional vvol.

    We try to update ESXi to version 8, using latest ESXi for Arm ISO 2_1. Update is completed but iSCSI are not mounting anymore.
    Everything on network side is fine, VMK can reach SAN target but nothing is discovered.

    It seems the Mellanox card (nmlx5_core) was update to driver version 4.23.6.2. Could there be an issue with this? Are you aware of this?
    Do we have availability to update to another vSphere 8 release?
    Also, giving a check on Broadcom website, I'm not able anymore to see the ESXi for ARM folder. Does something change?

    Thanks for your help!

    Bests

    Fabrice



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