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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

Importing and exporting workflows


Orchestrator provides us with a lot of possibilities for creating scripts, and as everyone knows, sharing is caring. So, it is good to know how to export a workflow so that you can share it with others. We will focus on workflows here, but the same concept holds true for actions.

Exporting a workflow

We want to export a workflow into a file so that we can send it via e-mail, upload it, or simply make a backup.

  1. Open the Orchestrator Client and drill down through the workflow library until you find the workflow that you would like to export. Choose the InstallFreshVM deploy workflow.

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

  3. Chose a location that you want to store the workflow in and click on Save.

The file has been exported into a file called InstallFreshVM.workflow that you can now move around or e-mail.

The workflow that you exported only contains the workflow, not the action that we created for it or the other workflows that have been used. This...