I'm looking for a strategy for validating my VMs once they are provisioned. There are both linux and windows VMs.
1. VCAC provisions a VM, assigns it an IP address, hostname, DNS suffixes, virtual machine name, and other various attributes that VMs have
2. Afterward I'd like to validate that these things all completed successfully and were in fact configured as expected.
What is the best way to do this and why? What scripting / automation tools/methods are the best?
Should I use vCO to do this with workflows?
Should I think about adding another tool such as puppet to assist?