We have two ESX - IBM SYSTEM X3650 M3 with VMware vSphere 5.5 and during the last days, we needed the crash as you see in the attached capture, I would need if I would indicate the reason for it or at least where logs of registers because you look like ESX sensors do not report hardware problems.
It may be due to some change in the configuration of the physical adapters, because until two days ago it had NEVER passed these purple screenshots ...
This issue doesnt point to E1000 or E1000e physical adapter, it points to the virtual adapters added to the VMs, solution is to change the VM's adapter to VMXNET3 or patch the host.
