Who this book is for

This book addresses the novice as well as the advanced VMware enthusiast. No previous know-how about Orchestrator is needed. The structure of this book is laid out so that a novice can start at the beginning and work his way through the chapters building up know-how in Orchestrator. An advanced user with knowledge of Orchestrator can just jump into any recipe. Most recipes are linked to other recipes or to external sources for more in-depth understanding or usage of a given concept.

Example workflows

All workflows, actions, and so on that you can find in this book are also available for download. The example package that contains more than 100 workflows and actions is available for download. Follow these instructions:

1. Navigate to www.packtpub.com/networking-and-servers/vmware-vrealize-orchestrator-cookbook.
2. Click on Code Files and download the example package.
3. Follow the Working with packages recipe in Chapter 5, Basic Orchestrator Operations, to upload the example package into your Orchestrator.

All example workflows can be found in the Orchestrator Cookbook folder and all actions are in the com.packtpub.Orchestrator-Cookbook module.