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Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers

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Published in Dec 2016

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ISBN-13 9781786464378

Pages 358 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Valentin Hamburger

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Building VMware Software-Defined Data Centers

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Preface

1. The Software-Defined Data Center

2. Identify Automation and Standardization Opportunities

3. VMware vSphere: The SDDC Foundation

4. SDDC Design Considerations

5. VMware vRealize Automation

6. vRealize Orchestrator

7. Service Catalog Creation

8. Network Virtualization using NSX

9. DevOps Considerations

10. Capacity Management with vRealize Operations

11. Troubleshooting and Monitoring

12. Continuous Improvement

Connecting vRO to vCenter

Once that is completed, the vRO service can also be registered to vCenter to run vRO workflows right out of vCenter using the right-click menu. To run workflows using the VMware API and to enable the right-click call feature, vRO has to be registered with vCenter. Actually, running a workflow in vRO does this:

Use a browser and put in the address of the VRO server.
Click either on Start Orchestrator Client or on Download Orchestrator Client.
If you have downloaded the client, uncompress it and open the Orchestrator Client Java executable.
Log on with an administrative vCenter user (since it is linked to SSO vSphere admin work).
Make sure the orchestrator mode is either in Run or in Design, otherwise the workflow view will not be available. The run mode is changed using the drop-down field right next to the vRealize Orchestrator logo.
In the top-left corner, locate the workflows icon (blue square with white rhombus in it).
Expand the Library folder and locate a subfolder...

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Authors (1)

Valentin Hamburger

Valentin Hamburger was working at VMware for more than seven years. In his former role, he was a lead consulting architect and took care of the delivery and architecture of cloud projects in central EMEA. In his current role, he is EMEA solutions lead for VMware at Hitachi Data Systems (HDS). Furthermore he works as an advisor with HDS engineering on the Hitachi Enterprise Cloud, which is based on VMware vRealize technology. He holds many industry certifications in various areas such as VMware, Linux, and IBM Power compute environments. He serves as a partner and trusted advisor to HDS customers primarily in EMEA. His main responsibilities are ensuring that HDS's future innovations align with essential customer needs and translating customer challenges to opportunities focused on virtualization topics. Valentin enjoys sharing his knowledge as a speaker at national and international conferences such as VMworld.

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