Bringup

How an interactive PowerShell script grew into a catalog-driven factory that stands up complete nested VCF 9.1 instances — hosts, bringup, supervisor, fleet components — from a single request form. The design rules that made it survivable, and the traps that shaped them.

Stage 2 of the lab factory: a vRO workflow that turns an environment number into a complete VCF 9.1 deployment spec, runs the installer’s own validation, starts bringup and hands back a task id — because the request dies long before the eight-hour build does. Plus how the wrapper slips the two-hour leash.