I'm trying to come up with a good solution that will create a Virtual Machine from a template as a post install activity after an ESXi 5.5 host is created through Auto Deploy. Here's the general idea...
Bare Metal --> ESXi (auto deployed) --> Create Virtual Machine(s)
The entire process needs to be automated. Power on the host, ESXi installed, VMs created...done. I thought vCenter Orchestrator might be the way to go but I don't know if the client has that software and I don't know how VCO would be called after the ESXi is deployed. I'm not sure there's a post install activity after Auto Deploy so if there is, please let me know as I cannot find a reference to that hook. Are there other options?