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Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers

By : Valentin Hamburger
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Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers

By: Valentin Hamburger

Overview of this book

VMware offers the industry-leading software-defined data center (SDDC) architecture that combines compute, storage, networking, and management offerings into a single unified platform. This book uses the most up-to-date, cutting-edge VMware products to help you deliver a complete unified hybrid cloud experience within your infrastructure. It will help you build a unified hybrid cloud based on SDDC architecture and practices to deliver a fully virtualized infrastructure with cost-effective IT outcomes. In the process, you will use some of the most advanced VMware products such as VSphere, VCloud, and NSX. You will learn how to use vSphere virtualization in a software-defined approach, which will help you to achieve a fully-virtualized infrastructure and to extend this infrastructure for compute, network, and storage-related data center services. You will also learn how to use EVO:RAIL. Next, you will see how to provision applications and IT services on private clouds or IaaS with seamless accessibility and mobility across the hybrid environment. This book will ensure you develop an SDDC approach for your datacenter that fulfills your organization's needs and tremendously boosts your agility and flexibility. It will also teach you how to draft, design, and deploy toolsets and software to automate your datacenter and speed up IT delivery to meet your lines of businesses demands. At the end, you will build unified hybrid clouds that dramatically boost your IT outcomes.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Connecting vRO to vCenter


Once that is completed, the vRO service can also be registered to vCenter to run vRO workflows right out of vCenter using the right-click menu. To run workflows using the VMware API and to enable the right-click call feature, vRO has to be registered with vCenter. Actually, running a workflow in vRO does this:

  1. Use a browser and put in the address of the VRO server.
  2. Click either on Start Orchestrator Client or on Download Orchestrator Client.
  3. If you have downloaded the client, uncompress it and open the Orchestrator Client Java executable.
  4. Log on with an administrative vCenter user (since it is linked to SSO vSphere admin work).
  5. Make sure the orchestrator mode is either in Run or in Design, otherwise the workflow view will not be available. The run mode is changed using the drop-down field right next to the vRealize Orchestrator logo.
  6. In the top-left corner, locate the workflows icon (blue square with white rhombus in it).
  7. Expand the Library folder and locate a subfolder...