I had same Issue On DL380 G7 with p410i and 2*146 10k SAS HDD on it, I tried to upgrade the HDDs firmware but it failed and esxi (I tested it with esxi 5.5,6.0 and 6.5) hanged while loading during booting I pulled out HDDs then esxi could load the modules at last I forced to install the esxi on USB flash drive I'll tried these test with 300GB SAS HDD and If it failed I inform every one.
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