Book Image

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials

By : Langenhan
Book Image

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials

By: Langenhan

Overview of this book

The automation of virtual environments has become the focus of many endeavors. VMware vRealize Orchestrator is a tool that enables you to automate not only your VMware environments, but also the surrounding hardware and software infrastructure. Orchestrator is also a central tool in the VMware cloud initiative and is extensively used by products such as vRealize Automation. In this book, you will learn how Orchestrator is able to help you automate your complete VMware infrastructure as well as its surrounding hardware and software. After deploying and configuring the vRealize Orchestrator appliance, you will learn how to run the existing workflows that are a part of the Orchestrator library. You will also see how the vSphere Web Client integration of Orchestrator reduces the time you spend on your daily admin tasks. The main aspect here is to learn how to create new workflows from existing ones. You will also look at how you can create completely new workflows. This includes learning about JavaScript and using presentation features to improve the layout and user friendliness of your workflows. Toward the end, you will learn to check for errors in your workflows and debug them. By the time you're done with the book, you'll be proficient in managing your workflows.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 3. Integrating Orchestrator with vSphere

In the last chapter, we installed and configured Orchestrator with SSO authentication and an external database. Now, we will integrate Orchestrator into vCenter and ultimately with other VMware or third-party tools. This will place Orchestrator in a central position for all your automation purposes and needs.

You can add a vCenter 5.5 or 5.1 to Orchestrator 6 without any problems. However, please be aware that, if you construct workflows in Orchestrator 6 intended for a vCenter 5.x, you might experience problems. A typical problem is SSO, which underwent some major changes in 5.1, 5.5, and 6.0, and it will make a vSphere Web Client integration hard, if not impossible. If you need to stay compatible, you should use Orchestrator 5.5.x with vSphere 5.5.x.

In this chapter, we will look at the following topics:

  • Integrating Orchestrator with vCenter

  • Installing additional plug-ins

  • Configuring the vCenter plug-in