SCVMM and SCCM 2012 R2 - Deploying VM's - Which method

Hi guys,
Looking at deploying SCCM 2012 R2 and SCVMM 2012 R2. I've used SCCM 2012 quite a lot in a previous environment, but not SCVMM.
I'm aware SCVMM is for bare-metal Hyper-V (as well as Xen and ESXi), and for managing the virtual environment, but do I create VM templates and create my VM Servers within SCVMM, or just the shell and PXE boot into a SCCM Task Sequence to deploy the OS?
Will also be running Orchestrator too.... So to deploy a VM would a runbook be used to create a VM shell in SCVMM, and then kick off a TS in SCCM?
Or should I be building the server templates and basically replicating some of SCCM's OSD capability for VM servers in SCVMM?
Thanks - Steve

Thx Stevehoot.
Yes, you might see that there are some "overlapping" technologies involved, but please remember that SCCM is the general approach, that has been supporting physical servers/computers since day one. This requires PXE boot for the VMs as well, in order to
deploy the OS, install the agent and then the applications.
Using VMM for VM deployment, the VMM agent will handle this all for you and you can manage your datacenter from this single console. Currently, Gen2 has lacking support in some areas, like service templates in VMM, VM roles in Azure Pack and replication
to Azure using Microsoft Azure Site Recovery. 
Moving forward, it would be smart if you could invest in deployment using VMM if the majority of your workloads will be on virtual machines. What we basically sees in the field is that people are using SCCM to deploy their traditional applications onto these
servers where service templates may not be the right solution. But again, then SCCM is something that kicks in post the VM deployment. 
-kn
Kristian (Virtualization and some coffee: http://kristiannese.blogspot.com )

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