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Just to be clear, you are talking about chain-booting ESXi itself in UEFI mode on physical hardware so that you can run VMs on the deployed ESXi host, not chain-booting another guest OS in UEFI mode in a VM running on ESXi, right?
Either way, it would help perhaps if you gave a bit more detail about what you have attempted, and the error messages or barriers you encountered along the way.
Please also identify the ESXi version you are using -- and perhaps the versions of any third-party components you are using, too.
Cheers,
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Darius