After struggling (see: failing) to upgrade my macOS Sierra VMware VM to High Sierra, I gave up and figured I'm stuck with Sierra and have to create a new VM eventually, whenever Sierra support dies.
The issue I was having was that the Install Mac OS High Sierra app would tell me I could not install High Sierra because some firmware was not found on my boot device. There is apparently, some BS that you can't install H.S. on non-stock drives (I have done it on a physical mac w/o issue).
At least that was the case, until this post got me unblocked. A one line hack in your .vmx file will give you what you need. Simply add this at the bottom of your Virtual Machine definition file. It will tell the guest that the drive is now internal (as opposed to external as it defaults to).
ahci.port.hotplug.enabled = FALSE
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