Hi Philip,
The minimum support version of ESXi is 6.5. From the context of log and build, seems it hit an unknown issue when reading info from the storage device. However, based on this, we cannot root cause and will have a log improvement in the next release.
Let us know if you need further assistance.
Failure log below:
HCL current as of: 2022-12-01 14:48:00
Unknown Error
ESXi version:
6.0.0 Update 3 (Build 5572656)
6.5.0 Update 1 (Build 5969303)
6.7.0 Update 3 (Build 17700523)