Chapter 9. Amazing Smoothies Day 3: VM Provisioning

You might be wondering why this one was saved for later in our chapters on virtual machine (VM) management. You have been at Amazing Smoothies for 3 days and still have not built a VM? Well, there are a few reasons for that. First, you needed to relieve the pain that was being caused by the other issues. Second, it wasn’t until today that you discovered that VM provisioning was being handled by nearly everyone and their brothers with a user account. Talk about VM sprawl!

As the preceding paragraph indicates, in this chapter we handle the building of VMs with vCenter Orchestrator. We talk about a number of things, including the following:

The current VM provisioning method

• Building a VM with ...

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