Two provisioning paths side by side: IaaS engine to vCenter, vs blueprint to supervisor reconciliation

VM Apps vs All Apps: a field comparison of VCF Automation's two provisioning models

VCF Automation 9.1 ships two provisioning architectures in one org. I ran the same use cases through both — Linux and Windows VMs, ISO attach, multi-NIC, isolated pods, nested ESXi, shared services, a catalog item. The honest scorecard, and how each use case is actually achieved.

16 September 2026 · 6 min · Adam Stretton