Comment 6 for bug 1364685

Maybe enlarge the Handshake timeout may help:
Similar issue:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1020210

Connect to your ESXi/ESX host via a remote Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) or Secure Shell (SSH) session or directly as root.
Open the /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml file in a text editor.
Enter <handshakeTimeoutMs> 120000 </handshakeTimeoutMs> between the <ssl> tags in the vmacore section. This parameter is in milliseconds. For example, 120000 millseconds = 2 minutes.

<vmacore>
<threadPool>
<MaxFdsPerThread>2048</MaxFdsPerThread>
</threadPool>
<ssl>
<handshakeTimeoutMs> 120000 </handshakeTimeoutMs>
<useCompression>true</useCompression>
</ssl>
<vmdb>
<maxConnectionCount>8</maxConnectionCount>
</vmdb>
<loadPlugins> true </loadPlugins>
</vmacore>