Hello, I have two servers with ESXi 5 build 623860. Both with a free license.
One has a Linux VM for mail spam filtering and the other one has 3 Win 2008 R2 Std.
All the VMs are configured for Automatic Startup and I even tried the Linux box set as "Any order". The resulting screen shows "Enabled" on the "Startup" column.
The "Allow virtual machines to start and stop automatically with the system" setting is enabled.
I tried with 120 seconds delay for startup, and I also reduced it to 60.
I tried with the "Continue inmediatly if VMware Tools start" setting enabled and disabled.
The machines don't start up automatically no matter how I set them.
I even tried to put them on manual startup, restarted the host, and I put them back to automatic startup and restarted the host again but nothing happens!
Is it a bug?
Is there anything else to set up that I'm missing?
I use the vSphere client v 5 build 455964.
Do I have to use vCenter? http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=850
