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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials

By : Daniel Langenhan
Book Image

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials

By: Daniel Langenhan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Combining existing workflows


A very common task for workflow creators is to use the existing workflows and put them together. In this section, we will create a new workflow that consists of other workflows. We will build a workflow that will create a VM, add and mount a CD-ROM, and then start it. We have already used the workflows involved in the last chapter. During the next chapters we will enhance this workflow further.

Tip

It's always a good idea to try out an existing workflow before using it so that you know what it is really doing and what inputs it needs.

Creating a new workflow

In order to build a workflow that combines two or more existing workflows, we first need to create a new empty workflow. Just placing a workflow somewhere in the library isn't really that professional. So, we will create a new folder in the library that we will use to store our workflows in. This will also help us later when we create a new package for export (see Chapter 9, Packing It All Up).

Creating a new...