Automation across physical servers / VMWare

[Daniel Tate]

We have the need to roll out many servers in a short amount of time,
each with about 8 additional, server specific tools on it.   What
would be the simplest way to do this?  Kickstart would be OK, but if
there's something a LITTLE faster but not so complicated it would take
a week to learn, that would be preferable.  We're going to have 4
configs - RHEL5 32 and 64 bit (Vendor Reqs)