Thank you Andrew, Question about 2 in your list above . Is it cpuid.7.edx = "----:00--:----:----:----:----:----:----" as on the KB article below
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/52345?

I already applied BIOS update and ESXi patch which includes ESXi600-20180140 BG !!
We have not applied the OS patch yet.
I wonder whether we have to add that line in the /etc/vmware/config in our case since we applied that patches for our E5-2600 -V4 CPU host.

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

1/19/2018

This question is to deal with ESXi 5.5, not ESXi 6.0!

Please post new question, so this question remains on topic.

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