- VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook Second Edition
- VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Installing and Configuring Orchestrator
- 2. Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration
- Introduction
- Tuning the appliance
- Tuning Java
- Configuring the Kerberos authentication
- Configuring access to the local filesystem
- Configuring the Orchestrator service SSL certificate
- Orchestrator log files
- Redirecting Orchestrator logs to an external server
- Backup and recovery
- Control Center titbits
- 3. Distributed Design
- Introduction
- Building an Orchestrator cluster
- Load-balancing Orchestrator
- Upgrading a cluster
- Managing remote Orchestrators
- Synchronizing Orchestrator elements between Orchestrator servers
- 4. Programming Skills
- Introduction
- Version control
- Changing elements in a workflow
- Importing and exporting Orchestrator elements
- Working with packages
- Workflow auto documentation
- Resuming failed workflows
- Using the workflow debugging function
- Undelete workflows and actions
- Scheduling workflows
- Sync presentation settings
- Locking elements
- 5. Visual Programming
- 6. Advanced Programming
- Introduction
- JavaScript complex variables
- Working with JSON
- JavaScript special statements
- Turning strings into objects
- Working with the API
- Creating actions
- Waiting tasks
- Sending and waiting for custom events
- Using asynchronous workflows
- Scripting with workflow tokens
- Working with user interactions
- 7. Interacting with Orchestrator
- Introduction
- User management
- User preferences
- Using Orchestrator though the vSphere Web Client
- Accessing Orchestrator REST API
- Accessing the Control Center via the REST plugin
- Running Orchestrator workflows using PowerShell
- Using PHP to access the REST API
- 8. Better Workflows and Optimized Working
- 9. Essential Plugins
- 10. Built-in Plugins
- Introduction
- Working with XML
- Working with SQL (JDBC)
- Working with SQL (SQL plugin)
- Working with PowerShell
- Working with SOAP
- Working with Active Directory
- Working with SNMP
- Working with AMQP
- 11. Additional Plugins
- 12. Working with vSphere
- 13. Working with vRealize Automation
- Introduction
- Working with the vRA-integrated Orchestrator
- Automating a vRA instance in Orchestrator
- Configuring an external Orchestrator in vRA
- Adding Orchestrator as an infrastructure endpoint
- Adding an Orchestrator endpoint
- Integrating Orchestrator workflows as XaaS Blueprints
- Managing AD users with vRA
- Using the Event Manager to start workflows
This chapter is dedicated to some of the more commonly used plugins for Orchestrator. All these plugins require that you download them. We will be looking at the following plugins:
- NSX integration
- Horizon Integration
- vSphere Replication
- SRM (Site Recovery Manager) integration
- vROps (vRealize Operations Manager) integration
In the last two chapters, we took quite an intense look at all the plugins that come with Orchestrator. Now we will look at plugins you can add to it. The selection is based on using them with clients and discussions with other consultants.
There are many different plugins, such as VMware-based plugins for a lot of VMware products, as well as plugins from EMC, NetApp, Cisco UCS, Infoblox, F5, and more.
Installing plugins is pretty simple; please see recipe Installing Plugins in Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring Orchestrator.
Please note that when you download a plugin, your download should contain either a .vmoapp or .dar file. If the download is a ZIP file, it needs to be unzipped first.
There are three main ways (in my opinion) to get plugins: from the VMware site, from the vCO/vRO team website, and from VMware Solution Exchange.
The VMware page ( https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vco_plugins_pubs.html ) contains download links, as well as release notes and any additional documentation for the following plugins:
- vRealize Automation
- Amazon Web Services
- AMPQ
- Auto Deploy
- Elastic Services
- HTTP-REST
- Multi-node
- PowerShell
- SNMP
- SOAP
- SQL
- UCS Manager
- vCenter Chargeback Manager
- vCenter Service
- vCenter Site Recovery Manager
- vCloud Director
- vSphere Replication
The vCOTeam web page is run by Christopher Decanini and Burke Azbill, who not only reviewed this book but are also considered global experts on Orchestrator within VMware.
The site contains a very good collection of available plugins and also a great deal of information and tutorials on Orchestrator. For more information, refer to:
The VMware Solution Exchange is a platform run by VMware featuring extra material for vRealize Operations, vRealize Log insight, vRealize Orchestrator, vRealize Automation, and vSphere Web Client and is a source of really useful documentation.
You may be required to create a free account to access some of the downloads or some additional licensing from vendors. For more information, refer to https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store .
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