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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook

By : Daniel Langenhan

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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook

4.3 (10)

By: Daniel Langenhan

Overview of this book

If you are a VMware administrator who is interested in automating your infrastructure, this book is for you. An understanding of basic programming concepts is advised. No previous knowledge of Orchestrator is required, although some previous knowledge of it will allow you to get started more easily.

Preface

Preface

Best approaches to reading this book

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Installing and Configuring Orchestrator

1. Installing and Configuring Orchestrator

Introduction

Getting Orchestrator running in 5 minutes (or less)

Deploying the Orchestrator appliance

Installing Orchestrator on Windows

Two ways to configure Orchestrator

Important Orchestrator base configurations

Configuring Orchestrator with an external LDAP or Active Directory

Integrating Orchestrator into SSO and vSphere Web Client

Configuring an external database

2. Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration

2. Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration

Introduction

Plugin basics

Tuning the appliance

Tuning Java

Backup and recovery

Creating an Orchestrator cluster

Configuring the Orchestrator Service SSL certificate

Configuring e-mail

Redirecting Orchestrator Syslog to an external Syslog server

Configuring the Kerberos authentication

Configuring access to the local filesystem

Updating Orchestrator

3. Visual Programming

3. Visual Programming

Introduction

Workflow basics

Version control

Working with logs

Error handling in workflows

Resuming failed workflows

Using the workflow debugging function

Working with decisions

Working with loops

Working with presentations

Working with configurations

Working with actions

Linking actions in presentations

Waiting tasks

Sending and waiting for custom events

Using asynchronous workflows

Working with user interactions

Changing credentials

4. Working with Plugins

4. Working with Plugins

Introduction

Working with the API

Working with mails

File operations

Working with SSH

Working with XML

Working with SQL

Working with PowerShell

Working with SOAP

Working with REST

Working with Active Directory

Working with SNMP

Working with AMQP

5. Basic Orchestrator Operations

5. Basic Orchestrator Operations

Introduction

Basic Orchestrator operations for Orchestrator elements

Changing elements in a workflow

Undelete workflows and actions

Importing and exporting Orchestrator elements

Synchronize Orchestrator elements between Orchestrator servers

Working with packages

User management

User preferences

Scheduling workflows

Workflow auto documentation

Orchestrator and vSphere Web Client

6. Advanced Operations

6. Advanced Operations

Introduction

Accessing the Orchestrator API via REST

Working with resources

Working with tags

Working with locks

Language packs (localization)

Working with policies

Managing remote Orchestrator

7. Working with VMware Infrastructure

7. Working with VMware Infrastructure

Introduction

Unmounting all the CD-ROMs of all VMs in a cluster

Provisioning a VM from a template

An approval process for VM provisioning

Working with the vCenter API (to change a VM's HA settings)

Standard vSwitch and Distributed Switch ports

Executing a program inside a VM

Configuring a vRA instance in Orchestrator

Configuring an external Orchestrator in vRA

Adding an Orchestrator endpoint

Integrating Orchestrator workflows in vRA

Managing AD users with vRA

Index

Index

Working with SSH

This recipe centers on using the SSH plugin. With this plugin, you are able to connect to a Linux- or Solaris-based system, run programs, or transfer files.

Getting ready

We need to be able to create a new workflow. We also need a Linux or Solaris system that we can access via SSH (for example, as root). If you don't have any Linux system handy, you can use the Orchestrator appliance itself.

For the SCP example, you need to allow Orchestrator access to its local filesystem. Refer to the Configuring access to the local filesystem recipe in Chapter 2, Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration.

How to do it...

We split this recipe into three parts: SSH access, SSL key access, and SCP usage.

Using SSH

You will find a very good, while rather chatty (logs) SSH workflow in Library | SSH | Run SSH command. However, we will create a new short version to showcase SSH:

Create a new workflow and create the following variables:

Name

Type

Place

Usage

host

String

IN

The IP or FQDN of the...

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