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Cloning used for recovery

Maybe this is a dumb question but I am looking at the different licensing options in vSphere and we would like the ability to quickly recover from a failed VM or Host Blade.  The VM Supporting files are on redundant Shared SAN Storage in the Datastore.  If a VM or Host fails and I have a clone copy of that VM from the State/point-in-time that we require, what is stopping me from just powering on that VM Manually -same host or another functioning host? 

Aside from the obvious with having 2 identical computers in my AD with identical names, and IDs, what else could I be missing or that I may not be  considering when it comes to using this as a cheap and manual way to have quick recovery?

Thanks for any feedback

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