I back them up in suspended state because its faster than shutting them down, backing them up and restarting them.
My apologies for a poorly worded question, what I really meant to ask is this:
Assume my host machine loses the root drive and has to be rebuilt from scratch including recreating the two virtual machines in workstation pro.
Can the two newly created virtual machines open an existing file in suspended state?
I would assume the newly created virtual machines need to have the exact same name as the suspended VMs
Any other things to look out for?
Dennis