I'd like to be able to right-click a set (folder) of VM's and "resume" them or "suspend" them - typically I have 10-16 VM's I want resumed and it's painful having to resume each one individually.
You're looking at script writing for this, using something like the vmware or vmrun commands, or the REST API.
When I close WS16 and select "suspend" as an option, WS16 will hang (forever) after a few VM's and need the main app force closed, leaving some VM's crash stopped (this has caused some VM's to be made unusable on a few occasions). Happened in WS15 as well (suspendind said 10-15 VM's)
You're asking Workstation to write all the memory of all the VMs to disk at once, and you would be asking Workstation to read all of that data back into memory if you did a bulk resume.
