64 GB RAM
Ryzen 5900x cpu
2 Terabytes SSD NVMe, with lots of free space
VMware Workstation ver. 16.1.0 build 17198959 - I'm a non-subscriber to support services as it is used @Home
Is this how you look for instances vmware.log?
2021-01-02T15:48:00.715+01:00| vcpu-0| I005: Progress 96% (none)
2021-01-02T15:48:00.720+01:00| vcpu-0| I005: Progress 97% (none)
2021-01-02T15:48:00.725+01:00| vcpu-0| I005: Progress 98% (none)
2021-01-02T15:48:00.729+01:00| vcpu-0| I005: Progress 99% (none)
2021-01-02T15:48:00.739+01:00| vcpu-0| I005: Progress 100% (none)
2021-01-02T15:48:00.746+01:00| vcpu-0| I005: SVGA: Guest reported SVGA WDDM driver version: 8.17.01.0001 Build Number: 16387846
2021-01-02T15:48:00.747+01:00| vcpu-0| I005: GuestRpc: Reinitializing Channel 0(toolbox)
2021-01-02T15:48:00.747+01:00| vcpu-0| I005: GuestMsg: Channel 0, Cannot unpost because the previous post is already completed
2021-01-02T15:48:00.747+01:00| vcpu-0| I005: Tools: [AppStatus] Last heartbeat value 13989 (last received 0s ago)
2021-01-02T15:48:00.747+01:00| vcpu-0| I005: TOOLS: appName=toolbox, oldStatus=1, status=0, guestInitiated=0.
2021-01-02T15:48:00.751+01:00| vcpu-0| I005: DEPLOYPKG: ToolsDeployPkgCptSave: state=0 err=0 (null msg)
2021-01-02T15:48:00.751+01:00| vcpu-0| I005: Progress 101% (none)
2021-01-02T15:48:00.755+01:00| vcpu-0| A000: ConfigDB: Setting checkpoint.vmState = "Windows 10 x64 -- NAMING.vmss"
2021-01-02T15:48:00.759+01:00| vcpu-0| I005: Vix: [mainDispatch.c:4204]: VMAutomation_ReportPowerOpFinished: statevar=1, newAppState=1875, success=1 additionalError=0
2021-01-02T15:48:00.759+01:00| vcpu-0| I005: SUSPEND: Completed suspend: 'Operation completed successfully' (0)
2021-01-02T15:48:00.759+01:00| vmx| I005: Stopping VCPU threads...
2021-01-02T15:48:00.763+01:00| svga| I005: SVGA thread is exiting the main loop
2021-01-02T15:48:00.780+01:00| mks| I005: SWBWindow: Number of MKSWindows changed: 0 rendering MKSWindow(s) of total 1.
Host Guest still unresponsive
Seems it is the Guest that became unresponsive. But Host was unable to do a shutdown on it.