Starting AppFabric Cache Cluster automatically

Yes - if you change the startup mode of the AppFabric Caching Service from Manual to Automatic, then the service will start once the server has finished booting.
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I suspect that as AppFabric starts to move into production clusters, this will become a 'best practice' thing to do in order to get maximum uptime on the cluster.

James Broome wrote a great post on this: http://jamesbroo.me/automatically-starting-the-windows-server-appfabric-caching-service/