Interesting - what license level are you running? At my office where this has been an issue on the rare occasion power fails, we're running Essentials Plus - perhaps that has something to do with it? You'd expect it to recover to previous states after a total outage, but that's not what I've seen with our environment. With our last outage, everything except the VMs was up and running happily. Although I can't rule out the possibility of there being a setting somewhere that I missed - but all the same, more control like you have when you're talking about a single, standalone host, would be nice - it's not uncommon to want machines to start up in a specific order, rather than a massive boot storm that has machines essentially racing to see who can start first - In my case, I'd want vCenter to be up and operational first, and from there, domain controllers, then file servers, followed by SQL servers, and then anyone else.
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