Removing the solution provided tag.
I'm seeing the same behaviour when booting UEFI built VMs, the first boot.sdi PXE screen loads quickly, but then severe slowness when loading boot.wim (gave up after an hour). Other searches on connect seem to indicate if it gets that far to loading the boot.wim, it's not a driver issue. Another VM built with Legacy BIOS on same machine boots fine.
Support had me try e1000 in place of e1000e driver on the VM itself, same result.
I tried googling for e1000/e1000e updated drivers but can't find anything. I tried uploading the VMware tools drivers into winPE, but the driver database didn't find anything newer than what I have.
Anyone have ideas, would love to hear them. I can't be the only one trying to PXE VM that was created on UEFI?