Question, should SCINI be running after installing SDC on ESX hosts?

Forgive me for the noob question, still learning this stuff. Using the EMC ScaleIO Deployment Guide, v 2.0.x Rev03. After installing the plugin successfully and successfully uploading the template ova to the DASxx datastores. I ran the Install "SDC on ESX" from the EMC ScaleIO plugin. All seems to go well, and I have rebooted a few times since, but during the required reboot, I see a message that says "scini failed to load". This is ESXi 6.0 U3 dell customized A03 (file name: VMWare-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0.update03-5224934.x86_64-DellEMC_Customized-A03.iso ( I did confirm the hash was good after downloading it)

So my question is, should SCINI be running after reboot?

Background: I had gone thru this last week (with the A02 version of the iso), and had seen the same message, but basically ignored it. I went thru the complete ScaleIO deployment, and it went a ways, installed the Master MDM, then died installing the slave MDM saying it couldnt connect to the master and timed out. I googled the message and it pointed to scini not running (in addition to checking network configuration issues). The suggestion was to manually copy the vib and install it manually, and I did this, but trying to start the scini module would simply say : Failure.

Nothing I did would make it run, so I wiped the hosts and installed the above A03 iso, but again I see the "failed to start scini". I have yet to try the ScaleIO deployment again.

I should note, I'm in a testing environment and I dont have the management side of the cluster up and running, I am only tasked with the adding of a node to the compute cluster (which I'm trying to configure).