VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials

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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials

By : Daniel Langenhan

Book Image

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials

By: Daniel Langenhan

Overview of this book

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials

Credits

Foreword

Foreword

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Architectural Overview

Architectural Overview

What is VMware Orchestrator?

Obtaining Orchestrator

The Orchestrator architecture

Additional sources for Orchestrator

Deploying and Configuring the Orchestrator Appliance

Deploying and Configuring the Orchestrator Appliance

Deploying the Orchestrator Appliance

Accessing Orchestrator

Base configure the Orchestrator Appliance

The Orchestrator configuration tools

Integrating Orchestrator with vSphere

Integrating Orchestrator with vSphere

Integrating Orchestrator with vCenter

Installing additional plugins

Working with Workflows

Working with Workflows

Using the Orchestrator Client

Using the vSphere Web Client

Scheduling workflows

Combining and Modifying Workflows

Combining and Modifying Workflows

Combining existing workflows

Useful workflow operations

Workflow parameters

Some more advanced programming

Modifying an existing workflow

Advanced vRO Scripting with JavaScript

Advanced vRO Scripting with JavaScript

JavaScript – the very basics

The if-clause in JavaScript

Creating an action

Improving Workflows with Presentation

Improving Workflows with Presentation

Presentation basics

Working with arrays

Linking presentations

VMware plug-in specific properties

Errors, Logs, and Debug Mode

Errors, Logs, and Debug Mode

Logs and errors

Packing It All Up

Packing It All Up

Importing and exporting workflows

Working with packages

Index

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Workflow parameters

Now that we understand some of the basics of how Orchestrator programming works, we will look at the different types of parameters that exist.

Parameter types

There are many variable types that are already implemented in Orchestrator out of the box, but the basic variable types are as follows:

Variable type	Description
any	This can contain any content. It is used to carry variables to the other elements that are not defined in the Orchestrator GUI, such as XML. Note that Any should only be used if nothing else will do, as it has been known to mishandle some content such as complex variables.
boolean	This has only two values, either `true` or `false`. However, Orchestrator uses Yes and No in the GUI.
credential	This contains a username and password. The password is encrypted.
date	This is used to store the date or time in the JavaScript format.
number	This contains only numbers, which can be integers or real numbers. Everything is stored as floats in Orchestrator...