How to Fix PSOD ESXI 6.5 ON HPE G7 SERVERS

Problem commonly happens on G7 Servers.

It would appear that one driver is causing this in the 6.5 image,  “hpe-smx-provider” (650.03.11.00.17-4240417). Installing the standard ESXI 6.5 ISO does allow the server to boot, but is missing a lot of drivers and does not give the pretty all-inclusive system stats that the HPE ISO does.

Below is a quick instruction on how to build a custom ISO to fix this.

Download PowerCLI for Windows.

Download
VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-Update1-6765664-HPE-650.U1.9.6.5.1-Nov2017-depot.zip
VMware-ESXi-6.0.0-Update3-5050593-HPE-600.9.7.0.17-Feb2017-depot.zip
Put Both into same directory I put mine in d:\esx

Power PowerCLI
Add-EsxSoftwareDepot .\VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-Update1-6765664-HPE-650.U1.9.6.5.1-Nov2017-depot.zip

New-EsxImageProfile -CloneProfile HPE-ESXi-6.5.0-Update1-650* -Name "ESXICUST"

Remove-EsxSoftwarePackage ESXICUST hpe-smx-provider

Add-EsxSoftwareDepot .\VMware-ESXi-6.0.0-Update3-5050593-HPE-600.9.7.0.17-Feb2017-depot.zip

Add-EsxSoftwarePackage -ImageProfile ESXICUST -SoftwarePackage "hpe-smx-provider 600.03.11.00.9-2768847"

Export-EsxImageProfile -ImageProfile ESXICUST -ExportToIso ESXI65.iso