In cloud providers that offer vCloud Director as the IaaS platform, instances of vRealize Automation can be deployed from a VMware vSphere vApp™ template that has the necessary components, such as the vRealize Automation appliance and a Windows VM with MS SQL installed. The service provider can then deploy the vApp, and leverage the vRealize Automation unattended installer and their own custom configuration scripts to deploy and configure the instance of vRealize Automation.