Error “CRITICAL_STRUCTURE_CORRUPTION” on Windows Server 2012 R2 using ESXi

I recently experienced BSOD with the error message “CRITICAL_STRUCTURE_CORRUPTION” for a virtual machine running Windows Server 2012 R2 running on a ESXi Host 5.0.0, 623860. This is a known issue and was resolved in ESXi 5.0 Update 3. There is also a workaround to create a CPUID mask for the virtual machines with the above … More Error “CRITICAL_STRUCTURE_CORRUPTION” on Windows Server 2012 R2 using ESXi