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If one of the hosts in the cluster fails, the vSphere HA feature restarts a VM on another host that has enough free resources. Dell Technologies strongly recommends that you enable the VM autostart feature in a vSphere cluster with SAP HANA.
The prerequisites for enabling VM autostart are: