Hi,
As per vSRX installation guide VMWARE ESXi is supported, did you try on this software?
Table 3:
Specifications for vSRX
Component Specification
Hypervisor support VMware ESXi 5.1, 5.5 or 6.0
Though vSRX 12.1 runs perfectly fine on VMWARE Workstation(v10 & v12) but for 15.1 some features doesn't work. Even VMWare workstaion 10.0 doesn't support vSRX v15.1.
You can check the details on this link
Regards,
MYN