VCF Installer

The lab factory: stage 1 nested hosts, stage 2 bringup, day-N items, one wrapper form

One catalog item, one VCF instance: building a lab factory

How an interactive PowerShell script grew into a catalog item that builds complete nested VCF 9.1 instances from one request form. The design rules that made it survivable, and the traps behind them.

Spec derived from X, validated by the installer, bringup started, task id returned; a second run polls without the catalog's leash

Driving the VCF Installer API from vRO: generate, validate, start, walk away

Stage 2 of the lab factory: a vRO workflow turns an environment number into a VCF 9.1 deployment spec, validates it and starts bringup, because the request dies long before the eight-hour build does.