Just as another point of data.....
I routinely close the lid on my laptop which sends it into suspend state. (Suspend to ram) Even with VMs running.
Upon opening the lid, the VMs also awaken, and the most significant thing I've seen is that it takes
a few seconds till bridged network connections are operational. Everything restores perfectly.
The same is true if I hibernate (suspend to disk) the host. On the next resume, everything comes up fine.
The same is true if I walk away from the machine and let it do its own power saving proceedures.
(Which in my case is suspend to ram untill battery gets down to 5% then suspend to disk).
I always suppress screen savers and power management in the VMs, so that they don't go into
their own sleep or hybernation state. I let the Host OS handle suspend/hybernate/resume in the normal way.
I only let the VMs have virtual devices, (via vmware tools), not direct access.
Host Vmware 9.x running on OpenSuse 12.3 (also worked on 11.4). Guests, several and various, mostly,
(but not all) Windows of various vintages.
This just always works for me (over the last several VMWare releases, and I'm mystified why it doesn't work for you.