Thanks for the documentation on security within the vSphere environment. I will consider this in the stage after. It still doesn't answer my question.
Suppose the vSphere machine attempts to connect to xyz.com port 80 to validate the vSphere license, but the firewall in my secured environment did not let this outbound connection, would vSphere suspend my VM? If so, I would have to allow the outbound connection in the firewall to xyz.com port 80.