Orchestrator has its own little webserver that can be accessed by any web browser.
We will now access the Orchestrator home page:
- Open a web browser such as Mozilla Firefox, IE, or Google Chrome.
- Enter the IP or FQDN of the Orchestrator Appliance.
- The Orchestrator home page will open. It looks like the following screenshot:
The home page contains some very useful links, as shown in the above screenshot. Here is an explanation of some of them:
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Number |
Description |
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1 |
Click here to start the Orchestrator Java Client. You can also access the Client directly by visiting |
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2 |
Click here to download and install the Orchestrator Java Client locally. |
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3 |
Click here to access the Orchestrator Configurator, which is scheduled to disappear soon. The way forward will be Orchestrator Control Center. |
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4 |
This is a selection of links that can be used to find helpful information and download plugins. |
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5 |
These are some additional links to VMware sites. |
Let's open the Orchestrator Client. We will use an internal user to log in until we have hooked up Orchestrator to SSO. For the Orchestrator Client to work, you need to run at least Java 7.
- From the Orchestrator home page, click on Start Orchestrator Client.
- Your Java environment will start. You may be required to acknowledge that you really want to start this application.
- You will now be greeted with the login screen to Orchestrator:
- Enter
vcoadminas the username andvcoadminas the password. This is a preconfigured user that allows you to log in and use Orchestrator directly. Click on Login. - Now, the Orchestrator Client will load. After a moment, you will see something that looks like the following screenshot:
