VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials电子书

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials

Table of Contents

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials

Credits

Foreword

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Architectural Overview

What is VMware Orchestrator?

A short history of Orchestrator

Features of Orchestrator

More about plug-ins

Obtaining Orchestrator

Licensing

Downloading

Compatibility

The Orchestrator architecture

Authentication

Dedicated service account

Database

VMware infrastructure

Other services

Limitations

Additional sources for Orchestrator

Documentation

Books

VMware community

Websites

Google searches

Summary

2. Deploying and Configuring the Orchestrator Appliance

Preparations

Downloading the appliance

Appliance's size requirements

Preparing the IP and DNS settings

Open ports

Creating users and groups

Database

Deploying the Orchestrator Appliance

Deploying the Appliance with vCenter

Deploying the appliance into VMware Workstation

After the deployment

Accessing Orchestrator

Accessing the Orchestrator home page

Starting the Orchestrator Client

Base configure the Orchestrator Appliance

What is preconfigured?

How to run a workflow

Configuring Orchestrator with SSO

Configuring Orchestrator with an external database

Creating a Package Signing Certificate

Entering a license

Last steps

The Orchestrator configuration tools

Orchestrator Configurator

Orchestrator Control Center (Beta)

Summary

3. Integrating Orchestrator with vSphere

Integrating Orchestrator with vCenter

Open TCP ports

Allowing user access

Adding a vCenter to Orchestrator

The Orchestrator inventory

vSphere Web Client

Installing additional plugins

Downloading the VMware plug-in

Installing the plug-in

Opening the Orchestrator configuration

Installing a new plug-in

Restarting the Orchestrator service

Checking out the new plug-in

Plugin problems

Summary

4. Working with Workflows

Using the Orchestrator Client

Introducing the Orchestrator Client

Workflow properties

The General tab

The Inputs tab

The Outputs tab

The Schema tab

The Presentation tab

The Parameters References tab

The Workflow Tokens tab

The Events tab

The Permissions tab

Starting a workflow

Workflow run and results

Rerunning workflows

Using the vSphere Web Client

Starting a workflow from the Orchestrator plugin

Configuring workflows for the vCenter inventory

Starting a workflow from the vCenter inventory

Scheduling workflows

The Orchestrator Client

The vSphere Web Client

Summary

5. Combining and Modifying Workflows

Combining existing workflows

Creating a new workflow

Creating a new library folder

Opening a new workflow for editing

Adding workflows

Adding actions to a workflow

Assigning parameters

Workflow verification

Workflow history

Comparing the versions

Reverting to an older version

Useful workflow operations

Copying a workflow

Renaming a workflow element

Deleting an element

Exit without saving and reverting

Deleting and undeleting a workflow

Workflow parameters

Parameter types

Parameters in the General section

Variables in the input section

Variables in the output section

Working with parameters and attributes

Moving a parameter or attribute

Some more advanced programming

Adding a decision element

Working with connection lines

Things you might like to try out

Modifying an existing workflow

Summary

6. Advanced vRO Scripting with JavaScript

JavaScript – the very basics

Basic rules

Every line ends with a semicolon

Variables

Case sensitivity

Comments

Formatting

Running though some examples

Creating an example workflow

Creating new parameters

Numerical operations

String operations

Integrating JavaScript into our program

The if-clause in JavaScript

Conditions and operators

An example if-clause

Common string problems and solutions

Is a string part of another string?

Case sensitivity

Getting rid of space

Creating an action

Creating a new action module

Creating a new action

Implementing the action into a workflow

Things you might like to try

Switch case

String clean-up

Summary

Correct answers

7. Improving Workflows with Presentation

Presentation basics

Descriptions

Mandatory

Min and max values

Default value

Working with arrays

Arrays in JavaScript

Defining and filling arrays in the workflow

JavaScript example

Predefined answers

Linking presentations

VMware plug-in specific properties

Specify a root object to be shown in the chooser

Select value as

Show in inventory

Example

Summary

8. Errors, Logs, and Debug Mode

The debug mode

Logs and errors

Catching and dealing with an error

Summary

9. Packing It All Up

Importing and exporting workflows

Exporting a workflow

Importing a workflow

Working with packages

Creating a package

Filling a package

Exporting a package

Importing a package

Summary

Index