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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

Configuring an external Orchestrator in vRA


vRA comes with an installed and configured Orchestrator. While VMware now recommends using the embedded vRO in production systems, this primarily applies to small-/medium-sized infrastructure deployments. In much larger enterprise deployments, it may be beneficial to use an external vRO cluster.

Another example is if you require a different vRO for a given tenant.

Getting ready

Please make sure you read the introduction to vRA at the beginning of this chapter. We need a functional and configured vRA.

How to do it...

This recipe has three parts. First, we will configure the Orchestrator, bind it to vRA, and then we will clean up the vRA appliance.

Tip

Changing between Orchestrators will result in losing all your endpoints that you have configured with Orchestrator.

Building and configuring an external Orchestrator

To attach an external Orchestrator, we first need an Orchestrator that we can connect to:

  1. Install the Orchestrator appliance (refer to the Deploying...