Yes and Yes. vCAC can provision desktops in a number of ways. It supports cloning whihc includes thin-provisioned machine. It also supports WIM deployments and Citrix PVS provisioning of desktops. You can also optionally utilize Citrix XenDesktop as a broker. View Support is on the roadmap for a future release.
You can conifgure vCAC to support placement decisions. You may also want to create custom workflows that leverage external data sources to assist in the placement of workloads closest to the users. There are many companies using vCAC today for user on-boarding. How you decide to utilize really depends on your needs.
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