Hi,
I'm not sure if this is the right discussion thread for this post so please forgive me
and let me know if it should be posted somewhere else.
My team and I are in the early stages of a vSphere 5.1 deployment. We haven't had
the opportunity to use Orchestrator yet but we've been dealing with a particular challenge
that I'm hoping someone could help us find the answer for.
We have other departments who are continually requesting deployment of new VM's for
testing/training purposes. The manual process involved with this is placing more of a
burden on my team and I've been wondering if there is a way to automate this process?
The goal would be to fully-automate, as much as possible, the deployment of VM's (W2K8),
have them available for a set period of time and then have them removed from inventory or
deleted from disk automatically. Ideally, we'd like to have these VM's current on patches
at the time of deployment as well.
Is this something we could achive with Orchestrator or is there another/better way to
do this?
Any information, thoughts/ideas on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!