Looking for Advice to Deploy Oracle 12c on Redhat 6.7 Physical and Virtual Servers

I have to deploy about 10 physical Oracle 12c database/Redhat 6.7 servers and about 40 virtual ones in a VMWare 5.5 environment.
RAC will be deployed as well.
I am a Redhat newbie.
I am looking for advice\suggestions on the best ways to accomplish this.
Is it possible to create an image and deploy it to the physical servers or at the very least a scripted install?
Is it possible to create a VMWare template for the virtual servers?