Enable passthrough for the Intel AHCI controller, specifically the Union Point controller from the Kaby Lake chipset.

• Activate the ssh service in Vsphere Client.
• Use Putty or any other terminal program to connect to you Esxi SSH server.
• Use vi, for example: vi /etc/vmware/passthru.map
• Add these 2 lines at the bottom of the file (for other controllers replace the first two numbers with values from lspci -v):

# Intel Union Point AHCI
8086 a282 d3d0 false

• Use ESC then :wq to save and quit vi.
• Reboot the Esxi server.
• Add the AHCI controller to the passthrough devices and reboot the Esxi server again.