PERR (PCI parity error) and CATERR ESXi7 and NVMI passthrough

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AndroidCat

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I have a system with Supermicro XeonD motherboard ( SYS-5019D-FN8TP-2-NC041) running latest ESXi7.03c.
It has one VM for now, TrueNAS SCALE with Intel P4510 passed through.

I experience intermittent PERR followed by CATERR and spontaneous system reboot.
The issue is triggered upon system reboot/power_on or when the VM with PCI passthrough is started. PERR/CATERR happens only on some occasions.

It is always pointing at Bus00 (DevFn00) which is 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers [PCIe RP[0000:00:00.0]]

Has anybody experienced similar symptoms?
Could that kind of error be 100% attributed to HW, or can it be ESXi7 passthrough has some quirks?

RAM has been extensively tested and SM support is of limited help here.
P4510 has latest firmware, MB is flashed with latest BIOS v1.5 as well.

Thanks.