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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

Useful workflow operations


Here are a couple of useful operations that you should know when creating or editing workflows. We will go through them via an example.

Copying a workflow

Creating a copy of an existing workflow is something that you will do quite a lot. For example, you may want to create a copy of an existing workflow and modify it according to your needs, which is what we will do in a later section in this chapter.

Let's copy our first workflow by performing the following steps:

  1. In the Orchestrator Client, select the workflow that we just created.

  2. Right-click on the workflow and select Duplicate workflow.

  3. Give it a new name or keep the default one, which will always be Copy of [Original workflow name].

  4. Select the folder in which you want to place the copy of your workflow. To do so, just click on the name that is displayed and then search for the folder that you want.

  5. If you also decide to copy the history of this workflow, the new workflow will contain all the old workflow's events...