title: How to configure VMs to automatically start when the host is on
body: <p>I'm using VMware esxi 5.1. </p>
  
  <p>I have several virtual machines and need to power on them automatically when the host machine is powered on. I tried to go to the configuration tab from vSphere client and checked "allow virtual machines to start and stop automatically with the system", I also set the default startup delay and the order of the virtual machines to turn on, but this did not work. If I restart the host, nothing happens and I need to manually start the VMs. Strange thing is that in the Automatic Startup order all of my VMs have "Startup" "disabled". </p>
  
  <p>I couldn't do anything with this, may be I need to somehow enable it?</p>
  
  <p>How can vSphere be configured such that machines start automatically upon host start-up?</p>
  
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