This is a simple question I'm sure, but due to an issue we are having, we are leaving HA turned off probably for about a week on our 6 node ESXi 4.0 U2 cluster until we can try a fix to an issue we are having that HA seems to make worse (datastores dropping periodically, and possibly hba issue). HA seems to try to restart VMs even ones that seem to be online and environment becomes unstable.
My question is, with HA turned off for the time being, if we lose one of our ESXi hosts due to a hardware issue, what happens to those VMs on that host? Can they still be brought up manually on the other hosts? If so, do we just power the VMs back on or do we have to browse the datastore they resided on and re-import them back to another host?