Vm-Apps

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.

esxihostdeploy.ps1 was 400 lines of ovftool and PowerCLI behind a menu. It became a cloud template, two vRO actions and two subscriptions — and the interesting part is deciding where each behaviour belongs. The full mapping, four non-obvious decisions, and the ‘yes’ that isn’t ’true’.