Hi,
I was facing the same Issue with ESXi 6.5 and the HPE Dynamic Smart Array B140i Controller .
To Fix it you need to download this little utility to inject the Driver in the .ISO
and the Driver:
Drivers & Software - HPE Support Center.
of cores also the : VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.5.0.update01-5969303.x86_64.iso from vmware.com to inject the Driver in to.
It works for me!