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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials

By : Daniel Langenhan
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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials

3.4 (5)
By: Daniel 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.
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VMware plug-in specific properties


There are some special properties of the VMware Server plug-in (the plug-in that starts with VC: ) We will have a quick look at them now.

Specify a root object to be shown in the chooser

This setting lets you define a certain start point for your searches. For example, if you choose an ESXi cluster as the root element, then a user can only select objects under this cluster. To use the root element, you need to link an action or a variable to this property. The following is an example:

Select value as

The select value as property has three choices—Tree, List, and Dropdown. This property makes it easier to manage what the input of an object looks like. The Select value as behaves differently, depending on the object type and client implementation. In the following screenshot, the dropdown for the VC:VirtualMachine selection is shown as a list:

Show in inventory

The show in inventory property is a powerful property. When you start a workflow from vSphere Web Client...

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