# Questions regarding project breakdown

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/questions-regarding-project-breakdown/26105>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** windows, vmware\
**Created:** [November 22, 2017, 8:53am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/questions-regarding-project-breakdown/26105 "2017-11-22T08:53:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![nbmprivat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cab0a1/32.png) [@nbmprivat](https://forum.ansible.com/u/nbmprivat)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 8:53am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/questions-regarding-project-breakdown/26105/1 "2017-11-22T08:53:48Z")

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Hi there,

I’m somewhat new to the concept of provisioning. I have a project where we want to automize provisioning of VMs in VMware Center 5.5.

The VMs will be for DevTest and for example need to end up running with a specific Windows Server version, Apache Tomcat, IIS, Java and a inhouse application. This application then need it’s own database on an existing SQL Server.

We will be using Ansible for this project.

- Code will be in a Git repository. Can Ansible be synched to the repository?

- Is Packer a good option for creation of images? If so, do you know any simple guides.

- Where are images best stored when used with Ansible?

- Is Ansible the best option in regards to post installation state or is Powershel DSC better? (apache, iis, java, etc.)

Thanks so much if you have the time to answer.