For first time ESXi system installation, we encourage installation from VMware-xxx-RollupISO.iso other than from VMware-VMvisor-installer-xxx.iso.

For example, ESXi driver rollup iso VMware-ESXi-5.5U2-RollupISO2.iso, VMware-ESXi-5.5U3-RollupISO1, VMware-ESXi-6.0U2-3620759-RollupISO1.iso, VMware-ESXi-6.0U3-RollupISO.iso,VMware-ESXi-6.5U1-RollupISO.iso, VMware-ESXi-6.5U2-RollupISO.iso, and VMware-ESXi-6.7-RollupISO.iso have included areca Raid adapter driver in iso file.