vRA comes with an installed and configured Orchestrator, but, the best practice is to use an external Orchestrator, or better yet, an Orchestrator cluster. In this recipe, we will show you how to do this.
Please make sure you read the introduction of vRA at the beginning of this chapter. We need a functional and configured vRA. We also need the vRA plugin for Orchestrator.
This recipe has three parts. First, we will configure the Orchestrator, bind it to vRA, and then, we will clean up the vRA appliance.
To attach an external Orchestrator, we first need an Orchestrator that we can connect to:
Install the Orchestrator appliance (refer to the Deploying the Orchestrator appliance recipe in Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring Orchestrator).
Configure Orchestrator with an external DB (refer to the Configuring an external database recipe in Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring Orchestrator...