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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

Introduction


Why a full chapter dedicated to multiple Orchestrators? Well... since Orchestrator became the central turning stone for vRealize automation, there are more and more customers that distribute and protect their Orchestrator infrastructure.

We differentiate between different goals and scenarios, such as high availability (HA), workload spreading, scaling out, and bandwidth optimization and localization. In the following sections I break this down into the three most common forms: cluster, distributed, and scale out designs.

Tip

Please note that the vRealize automation (vRA) internal Orchestrator should not be clustered as described here. If you scale out vRA, you should consider using an external Orchestrator cluster, not the built-in vRA Orchestrator. See Chapter 13, Working with vRealize Automation for more information.

Cluster design

As Orchestrator becomes more and more production-critical for companies, it is a solid idea to cluster Orchestrator to guarantee that it's up and working...