Tag: orchestrator

Automate ALL The Things #vBrownBag Follow Up – vCO Getting Started with Joerg Lew (@joerglew)

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VMware’s Joeg Lew (@joerglew) presents an overview of the features and functionality of vCO 5.5 and a live demo of the install, configuration and the drag and drop workflow builder.  A very special and big thank you to Joerg who was doing this presentation at 3AM local time! Video #vBrownBag Automate ALL the things –
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Getting Started with VMware Automation

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This post is by Cody Bunch. I’ve had a request or two recently on how to get started with VMware automation, what resources are there, and what tool should I use. This post aims to at least address two out of the three. That is, how to get started and what resources. Tool selection has
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VMUG Follow-Up: DC & Chicago (Automate the Planet!)

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First, thank you to the VMUG organization and the respective VMUGs for making this happen. I hope the content was good and useful to y’all. Please drop a line if you have questions, need to know more, or need help getting started. Below are the slides and links from the session: Links: vCO Links https://vbrownbag.comm/vcenter-orchestrator/
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#vSensei Say: Automation make shovel *hit Faster

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This one is a bit text heavy, and is in advance of some of my upcoming VMUG visits. It should hopefully cover some content that one cannot fit into an hour session, that is demo heavy on Orchestrator. Process is Good Do you have an “operations manual”? One of those big dusty D ring binders,
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[Orchestrator] Use VUM to Upgrade the vCO vApp

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Incase you have more than a small hand full of vCO vApps handy, you can use vApp functionality in VUM to upgrade vCO. You’ll need to do the following to get that going: Create the vApp Baseline Creating a vApp baseline works much like creating other baselines. On the home page of your vSphere client
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After vCenter 5.0 U1 Upgrade, vCO Client Issues

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For better or worse, I run my vCO Client from the vCenter Server in my lab, up till today, that wasn’t an issue either. That is, after upgrading to vCenter 5.0 U1 I was presented with: “You may not have the appropriate permissions.” – What? Ok… let’s browse to the directory: Even after clicking “Continue”
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Upgrading vCenter Orchestrator

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If you rolled out vCO before the vApp was released, the upgrade path is a bit different than “click here to upgrade”. Here’s the steps: Snapshot/Clone or otherwise backup vCO and your database. Launch the VCO installer (install media \ vCenter-Server\vCO): Click upgrade: Next: Change the SSL Keys (up to you): Next Next Click install,
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[Orchestrator] Configure Host Time Settings

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In looking around vCO, at least in the default plug-in, there was not a good variety of workflows for configuring hosts. This workflow, will set the NTP server on a host. Schema Not a very creative schema, and for good reason. Also note, it is designed to work on a single host at a time.
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Link Dump – 3/12/12

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I’ve again hit the point where Chrome was eating up too much memory. Thusly, here’s what is currently in my open tabs: PCoIP, Win 8, iPad – http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=2984 Resource Pool Shares & vCD – http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/02/28/resource-pool-shares-dont-make-sense-with-vcloud-director/ vBenchmark – http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/02/29/cool-tool-vbenchmark-fling/ Building Block Scaling – http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/03/02/scale-out-building-block-style-or-should-i-say-yellow-brick-style/ Use vCO to manage View – http://cloudnutz.com/2012/03/07/using-vmware-vco-to-manage-vmware-view/ vCenter 5 API for Guest
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Orchestrator – vCO Interdependencies Map

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Going over some of the vCO book material I found this diagram I made for the troubleshooting system of the vCO book Basically, it lists out most of the various systems that the vCO engine talks to or depends on out of the box. Useful when you have something that died and you’re not sure
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vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) Happenings

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While I’ve been head down in the final edits for the vCO book (Pre-Order here), a few things happened in the vCO community. vCO Happenings vCO Training! – vcoteam.info Unattended vCO vApp deployment – vcoteam.info (manual deployment here) Getting started with vCO – PhilipSellers.com, a good getting started piece. vCO Training Videos – vmware.com More
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Orchestrator – Install the vCO vApp

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In case you missed the announcement, the barrier to entry for vCenter Orchestrator was just lowered significantly with VMware’s release of the vCO 4.2 vApp. Here, we’ll talk about installing it. Installing the vCO vApp Assumptions Basically, I’m assuming that you have an edition of vSphere that is licensed for vCenter and have downloaded both
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Using PowerCLI, Onyx and Orchestrator

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Yes! You can! I’m not talking about using vCO to call PowerCLI scripts. As well, that’s been covered before. What I’m talking about is using PowerCLI against VMware Onyx to get vCO JavaScript (Jeorg Lew’s post on it here). First, get Onyx. I’ll wait… Have it? Excellent. Now fire it up & change the output
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Input Requested – vCO Book, Troubleshooting

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Woot! So, blogging may be picking up again in the nearish future as I approach the end of the first pass on writing the vCO book. That said, I was hoping to get some input from the larger vCO using community on some bits of the book. That is, help me shape the vCO troubleshooting
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vCenter Orchestrator – New Plug-ins for Awesome!

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There has been a lot going on in the vCO space while I’ve been head down in the book. No excuse to not post about it however. This post is all about the plug-ins: VMware posted here about the vCenter 5.x plug-in: As promised in a previous post, the vCenter Server 5.0 plug-in adds over
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vCenter Orchestrator – Add NFS Datastore

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Was surprised this wasn’t here by default, but alas, out of the box vCO does not ship with a workflow to manage an NFS datastore. Thanks to the VMware communities for a bit of scripting, I was able to put one together. First we’ll break out the components, then show you how it runs. Finally
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vCenter Orchestrator – Find The Last Time a Job Ran

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This is not so much a post of any real substance, more a: “Hey, I just noticed this cool thing here” or so in the vCO interface. Specifically, the last time a specific job/workflow ran: While selecting the workflow would seem a fairly obvious choice, it’s nice that it’s right there, and will tell you
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