Just a quick heads up:
- A new Intel X(L)710 firmware 6.01 has been released on Aug 22 - with no release notes to be found: Download Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Update Utility for Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710 and X710 Series
- There's also a new Linux based driver 2.1.26 that corresponds to said firmware: https://downloadmirror.intel.com/24411/eng/releasenotes.txt - some of the issues fixed sound interesting, but as I do not know the root cause of our problems yet, I cannot really tell whether they would be fixed by that driver.
- No mention of the firmware/driver on the VMware HCL or driver downloads so far (which isn't really surprising, given how recent they are).
- My VMware SR regarding the X(L)710/i40e(n) problems has now supposedly resulted in an internal ticket to VMware dev/engineering, unfortunately I don't know any details as of yet.
