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VM Secure Boot

In an OS that supports UEFI Secure Boot, each piece of boot software is signed, including the bootloader, the OS kernel, and OS drivers. VM Secure Boot has some essential requirements:

Virtual hardware version 13 or later
EFI firmware in the VM boot options
Guest OS that supports UEFI Secure Boot

Some examples of a supported OS are Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 or newer, VMware ESXi 6.5 and Photon OS, RHEL/Centos 7.0, and Ubuntu 14.04.

You can enable Secure Boot using the vSphere Web Client in the VM Options section of the selected VM:

You cannot upgrade a VM that uses BIOS boot to a VM that uses UEFI boot. Only if a VM ...

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