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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Daniel Langenhan
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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Daniel Langenhan

Overview of this book

VMware vRealize Orchestrator is a powerful automation tool designed for system administrators and IT operations staff who are planning to streamline their tasks and are waiting to integrate the functions with third-party operations software. This book is an update to VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook and is blend of numerous recipes on vRealize Orchestrator 7. This book starts with installing and configuring vRealize Orchestrator. We will demonstrate how to upgrade from previous versions to vRealize Orchestrator 7. You will be taught all about orchestrator plugins and how to use and develop various plugins that have been enhanced in Orchestrator 7. Throughout this book, you will explore the new features of Orchestrator 7, such as the introduction of the control center, along with its uses. You will also come to understand visual programming, how to integrate base plugins into workflows, and how to automate VMware. You will also get to know how to troubleshoot vRealize Orchestrator. By the end of this book, you will be able to get the most out of your Orchestrator installation, and will be able to develop complex workflows and create your own highly integrated automations of vRealize environments.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Introduction


In the last two chapters, we took quite an intense look at all the plugins that come with Orchestrator. Now we will look at plugins you can add to it. The selection is based on using them with clients and discussions with other consultants.

There are many different plugins, such as VMware-based plugins for a lot of VMware products, as well as plugins from EMC, NetApp, Cisco UCS, Infoblox, F5, and more.

Installing plugins

Installing plugins is pretty simple; please see recipe Installing Plugins in Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring Orchestrator.

Please note that when you download a plugin, your download should contain either a .vmoapp or .dar file. If the download is a ZIP file, it needs to be unzipped first.

Obtaining plugins

There are three main ways (in my opinion) to get plugins: from the VMware site, from the vCO/vRO team website, and from VMware Solution Exchange.

VMware core plugins

The VMware page ( https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vco_plugins_pubs.html ) contains download...