FYI, Release 5.2.1SV3(3.1) was released yesterday.  Release notes show: "This release of the Cisco Nexus 1000V supports vSphere 5.5, 6.0, and 6.5a release trains." Release notes here https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus100...

Wes, can you or Cisco please comment on when ESXi 6.5 will be supported for Nexus 1000V?  There's FUD being spread out there that Nexus 1000V will never be supported on ESXi 6.5. If that's the case, we need to abandon plans to buy 1000V Advanced+VSG,...

I reported the issue to the downloads support group (ent-dl@cisco.com) to fix the support entitlement requirement.  Opened it on Dec 7th and it's been escalated to their internal group, but so far no resolution.

It doesn't seem to have any 1000V components. Comparing the upgrade/profile.xml files, it looks like: megaraid-sas changed from 6.603.55.00-2vmw to Avago 6.610.15.00-1OEM scsi-fnic. changed from 1.5.0.45-3vmw to CSCO scsi-fnic 1.6.0.28-1OEM Nexus 1...