@creoleMalady one more suggestion for the sake of an alternative solution. If you insist on managing multiple servers not in host (even though running them in a pool would equalize the CPU features to the oldest CPU available) you can use Cloudstack as a management platform to do the templates and networking for you. It dynamically transfers templates and assigns networks on demand on the hosts as you provision vms on them.
The disadvantage is that you need to learn Cloudstack which can be much of an overhead by its own if you dont want to go too deep.
