Great job figuring out your solution. On the flip-side. Assuming DRS is running and set to automatic, DRS will power-on the newly deployed VM's in a distributed fashion. Meaning you could deploy all VM's to one host in the cluster and be fine since DRS would distribute them evenly for you.
Chris Nakagaki (中垣浩一)
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