Hi Brian,
Basically what you are describing here used to be called "teams" in former VMware Workstation versions and is also available as vApps in vSphere.
AFAIK teams do not longer exist, don't know why it has been stripped from the product.
However there's a command line version of what you are asking for in the VMware labs section.
Have a look here:
hope this helps,
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Wil