I'm trying to come up with a good solution that will create a Virtual Machine from a template as a post install activity after an ESXi 5.5 host is created through Auto Deploy. Here's the general idea...
Bare Metal --> ESXi (auto deployed) --> Create Virtual Machine(s)
The entire process needs to be automated. Power on the host, ESXi installed, VMs created...done. I thought vRealize Automation (VRA) that comes with vCenter might be the way to go but I don't know how VRA would be called/activated upon completion of the auto deploy process. Are there other options?
