Just got off the phone with them and have a solution. My esx host had a missing carriage return in /etc/vmware/config. Specifically, this line:
prefvmx.consolidateDeleteNFSLocks = "TRUE"authd.proxy.vpxa-nfc = "vmware-vpxa:vpxa-nfc"
Should appear as:
prefvmx.consolidateDeleteNFSLocks = "TRUE"
authd.proxy.vpxa-nfc = "vmware-vpxa:vpxa-nfc"
Hope this helps...