Edit: May have it figured out. Apparently enabling Autostart at the VM level isn’t enough you have to go into VMware’s Interface and go to Host > Manage > Autostart > Edit settings and enable Autostart there (and also on the each VM you want to auto start).
Assume I’m missing a setting somewhere but when the machine is rebooted either intentionally or unintentionally VMware comes back up but I have to manually go and “power on” the cnM VM. I have enabled Actions > Autostart but I have not changed anything under Actions > Autostart > Configuration but either I need to edit something in the Config or Autostart isn’t what I need to “Power On” the VM ?