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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook Over 90 recipes to satisfy all your automation needs and leverage vRealize Orchestrator 7.1 for your projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462787
Length 556 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Daniel Langenhan Daniel Langenhan
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing and Configuring Orchestrator FREE CHAPTER 2. Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration 3. Distributed Design 4. Programming Skills 5. Visual Programming 6. Advanced Programming 7. Interacting with Orchestrator 8. Better Workflows and Optimized Working 9. Essential Plugins 10. Built-in Plugins 11. Additional Plugins 12. Working with vSphere 13. Working with vRealize Automation

Introduction

Here, we are going to explore how to optimize your workflows and how to make your workload easier.

Configurations come in handy when you have multiple workflows that need the same inputs. For instance, you have multiple workflows that send e-mails. Instead of having all needed mail settings stored in each workflow, you can put them in a configuration and have them stored centrally. This makes it easier for you when you need to change a setting, such as updating a password.

Another example is that you have one workflow that you use in two environments, like development and production. You design and upkeep one workflow instead of two just by duplicating it, and then storing the different variables in a configuration.

A resource is basically a file that is stored in Orchestrator and can be used within a workflow. A typical example is the language packs, which are basically text files stored as resources. Another example for resources is to store information in them such as the...

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