When working with VMware this is handled by DRS which will automatically restart the virtual machines that were running on the host machine that failed on hosts which are still running.
DRS is an automatic process so that the downtime to the virtual machines is minimal.
The sysadmin controls the priority that the virtual machines start back up in. If no priority is given then DRS will start the machines in the order that it decides.
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