I am pretty new to VMware and all the cool stuff you can do with it and am curious if my scenario makes sense to try and accomplish and how I could go about doing it. I do NOT want a step by step, more just a use THIS.
I have a Windows AD domain with probably up to 100 VM ESX 4, 5, and 5.1 hosts. Each at a different site. We are not using vCenter Server to manage the sites. Really we so over bought for each site it is amazing, and we are only running 2 or 3 VMs.
What I would like to do is create some space within the ESX server(s) at each site to allow some of the local IT people to spin up VMs for testing purposes without having access to the actual production machines. Somewhat of a self-service portal. I do not want to implement vcloud director, or even really automate much for the deployment. At the least consider the idea that a user could create a VM and mount and .iso to make their VM. At some point we might get to ovf and templates, but for now we just want to allow some people to create a VM to test with.
I was thinking resource pools with permissions. Any thoughts as to a better way?