IBM x3550 M4 server, RAID 10 and fresh ESXi install. vSphere client connects fine but any attempt to install Server 2012 or 2008 causes ESXi to crash to a purple error screen with the following message at about 42% of "extracting files" step of Windows install:
VMware ESXi 5.1.0 [Releasebuild-799733 x86_64]
#PF Exception 14 in world 8701:helper 33-0 IP 0x41802d934f6f addr 0xce8
cr0=0x8001003d crs=0xce8 cr3=0x69734000 cr4=0x216c
frame=0x412207f5bda0 ip=0x41802d934f6f err=0 rflags=0x10206
rax=0x0 rbx=0x41800b485d18 rcx=0x412207f67000
rdx=0x412207fbf18 rbp=0x412207fbeb0 rsi=0x41802d93558c
rdi=0x0 r8=0x0 r9=0x0
r10=0x1 r11=0x1 r12=0x41000b304770
r13=0x530 r14=0x41000b304928 r15=0x41802d93558c
*PCPU4:8701/helper33-0
Code start: 0x41802d000000 VMK uptime: 0:00:08:59.641
0x41207f5beb0: [0x41802d934f6f]megasas_reset_fusion@<None>#<None>+0x1e stack 0xb303340
0x41207f5bf60:[0x41802d5b49a3]vmklnx_workqueue_callout@com.vmware.driverAPI#9.2+0x11a stack:
0x41207f5bff0:[0x41802d0483df]helpFunc@vmkernel#nover+0x52e stack: 0x0
0x41207f5bff8:[0x8]<unknown> stack: 0x0
base fs=0x0 gs=0x418041000000 Kgs=0x0
Coredump to disk. Slot 1 of 1
DiskDump FAILED: Timeout
Debugger waiting(world 8701) -- no port for remote debugger. "Escape" for local debugger
*Bear with me...I had to hand type it out from a screenshot (attached)