UEFI0072 error occurs when booting ESXi

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

The following message appears during boot, and ESXi fails to reboot:
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UEFI0072: Unable to load the firmware from the device Integrated NIC 1 Port 1 Partition 1 because of the Secure Boot policy.
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Environment

ESXi 7.0
ESXi 8.0

Resolution

"UEFI0072" is not a VMware message.
For more information about the error, please contact your server vendor.