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yeah I have a feeling that some one is making excuases 
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yeah I have a feeling that some one is making excuases

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The evidence will be in the Events and Tasks, you cannot delete them, unless you edit the SQL tables!
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The evidence will be in the Events and Tasks, you cannot delete them, unless you edit the SQL tables!

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I have a end user who claims that a guest started after it was shut off , the guest was set to autostart m but i am thinking that this is when the esx server gets booted and there is not any other way for a guest to boot if it is shut off right ? &nbsp;the guest cant just start by it self if the physical esx server is not rebooted right ? even if ha or drs is running right ? <a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2011/10_w44/517074/VMWareAutoStartSettings.png" target="_blank" title="csc (47 KB)"><img alt="csc" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 800px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2011/10_w44/800_517074/VMWareAutoStartSettings.png" /></a>
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I have a end user who claims that a guest started after it was shut off , the guest was set to autostart m but i am thinking that this is when the esx server gets booted and there is not any other way for a guest to boot if it is shut off right ?  the guest cant just start by it self if the physical esx server is not rebooted right ? even if ha or drs is running right ? 

vmware autostart when systems starts

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Servers are computing devices that are similar to desktop computers in that they have the same basic components, but are significantly different in size, configuration and purpose. Servers are usually accessed over a network, and many run unattended, without a computer monitor, input device, audio hardware or USB interfaces. Many servers do not have a graphical user interface (GUI), and are configured and managed remotely. Servers typically include hardware redundancy such as dual power supplies, RAID disk systems, and ECC memory, along with extensive pre-boot memory testing and verification. Critical components might be hot swappable, and to guard against overheating, servers might have more powerful fans or use water cooling.

Server Hardware

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.