vDeploy ---------- vDeploy is a Python Package that contains utilities to automatically and rapidly deploy VM images from "templates" that are stored on an object file store. The VM template is an abstraction that has properties such that the type of VM to deploy is unlinked from the hypervisor that it is being deployed to. For example, you may have a template of an OpenBSD Kerberous KDC host that you would like to commonly deploy to a tenant network. These tenant networks could be running on vSphere, XenServer, KVM, or Hyper-V hypervisors. The template object will be configurable as far as memory size, number of CPUs, number of NICs, VM name, root passwords, etc. In order to facilitate the deployment, the VM object may include different system disk images depending on what the destination hypervisor will be. There might even be work-flow rules to constitute an appropriate disk image from an initial ISO image. The important point here is that the bits that makes up the target deployment are un linked and some what independent of the properties that describe the deployable instance. This should allow one to use the same template object from store to deploy on any Hypervisor that the tools currently have access to. Obviously this could have implications for OpenStack environments.