We now look into automation using vCenter Orchestrator (vCO).
You need to download the vCO appliance (version 5.1 or better) from VMware. vCO is part of the normal vSphere software bundle. The appliance is preconfigured with an internal DB and LDAP and makes getting started with vCO easier. If you are already using vCO as a Windows install, that's fine.
After downloading, installing, and configuring vCO, we are ready to go. If you need some help with configuring, refer the See also section of this recipe.
First we need to connect the downloaded vCO to our vCloud by performing the following steps:
Open a web browser and go to
https://[vCO URL]
.Click on Orchestrator Configuration.
Log in to the configurator.
Click on Network and then on SSL Trust Manager.
Enter the URL of your vCloud Director in Import from URL and then click on Import. This will add the SSL cert of your vCloud Director to the vCO-accepted...