Symptoms:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Virtual Machine with EFI firmware cannot be installed on ESXi 7.0U3 if it is created as RHEL 9.0 Virtual Machine option.
VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0.3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Virtual Machine with EFI firmware is incorrectly configured as 32-bit EFI firmware during the Virtual Machine creation.
The issue has been resolved in ESXi 7.0 U3d
Workaround:
To workaround the issue, select Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 as Virtual Machine option during the process of creating Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Virtual Machine with EFI firmware. This affects Virtual Machines with a virtual hardware version 18 and 19.