Automated VM Provisioning?

Andyt_uk · 20 Jul 2011 at 17:26

Is anyone doing this at the moment? Just wondering how anyone is going about fully automating deployments, whether it be with PowerCLI or some 3rd party software?

I'm starting to look at doing it for a few of our builds that we use on a regular basis so just wondering what approaches work well and are worth looking into.

Cheers!

Gaz1988 · 20 Jul 2011 at 19:16

not a helpful post but i'm interested in this also so worth the bump

Skidilliplop · 21 Jul 2011 at 10:19

Doesn't VMWare Enterprise support policy based provisioning of VMs? (and storage for that matter)

Not used it myself but I've seen it on the feature list.

NiCkNaMe · 21 Jul 2011 at 22:58

What hypervisor? You want to use templates and then powershell scripts for standard provisioning... if you are hooked up to a decent SAN you could see if the manufacturer has any rapid provisioning facilities

Andyt_uk · 22 Jul 2011 at 09:49

This is with vmware vsphere 4.0 at present. I'd started looking at templates and powercli so shall keep on down that route I think.

Cheers!

NiCkNaMe · 22 Jul 2011 at 21:01

Cool - PowerCLI is just powershell with the VMware cmdlets imported. It's defiantly the way to go

Lots of examples on the web if you do a search.