HPE Custom Image for ESXi 6.5U1 has been withdrawn due to purple-screen issues

HPE has quietly withdrawn the HPE Custom Image for ESXi 6.5U1 July 2017 due to purple-screen issues being experienced on a number of current VMware-supported servers (http://vmware.com/go/hcl)! The particular issue purple screen we saw when deploying this ISO against a HP BL460 G7 was: #PF Exception 14 in world 6824:sfcb-smx IP 0x1 addr 0x1