Automating Implementation Tasks

Automation allows you to accomplish implementations faster and more accurately. It might not eliminate, but will greatly reduce the amount of repetitive tasks that are part of a vSphere deployment. This might be reason enough to automate certain portions of your implementation. The greatest benefit, however, is in the standardization that automation can provide.

Several methods can accomplish this. The following sections discuss a few technologies that enable such automation. Each of these methods is briefly discussed and the following sections provide some useful community resources that take advantage of automation. The sections also talk about how these technologies can even be used with each other to deliver a robust and powerful solution for automating vSphere deployments.