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I just started using ESXi 5, the free version. Everything seems to run great, and everything is on the HCL.

My only issue is that the VMs I've selected to auto-start on start-up aren't starting up at all. I found a vague reference to this on the VMWare page indicating that it's a bug. Is there a workaround I can employ? For example, a cron job to start up VMs that aren't started? They don't need to start immediately, but starting them at a reasonable interval would be ideal.

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The Auto Start bug (VMware Community) introduced with 5.0 Update 1, which broke the VM Auto Start feature on the free version of ESXi. VMware released the ESXi patch "ESXi500-201207001" on July 12, 2012 which includes the fix.

You can download the patch from here: Download

You can review the bulletins and image profiles included with the patch from here: VMware KB

Auto Starting is back:)

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Perfect! Thanks so much! Just a note to others that may not have done this before, applying the patch was easily done with: esxcli software vib install --depot /full/path/to/zip. – omghai2u Jul 23 '12 at 20:35

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