Automation across physical servers / VMWare

[Chaim Rieger]

On 12/7/2011 10:02 AM, Daniel Tate wrote:
> We have the need to roll out many servers in a short amount of time,
> each with about 8 additional, server specific tools on it.   What
> would be the simplest way to do this?  Kickstart would be OK, but if
> there's something a LITTLE faster but not so complicated it would take
> a week to learn, that would be preferable.  We're going to have 4
> configs - RHEL5 32 and 64 bit (Vendor Reqs)
>
I do not think that vmware is the correct tool for this

you can setup a template driven image library and then deploy them based 
on preconditions. but not using vmware,

with vmware you can clone your golden image, but thats about it.