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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials

You're reading from   VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials Get hands-on experience with vRealize Orchestrator and automate your VMware environment

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785884245
Length 184 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Combining existing workflows

A very common task for workflow creators is to use the existing workflows and put them together. In this section, we will create a new workflow that consists of other workflows. We will build a workflow that will create a VM, add and mount a CD-ROM, and then start it. We have already used the workflows involved in the last chapter. During the next chapters we will enhance this workflow further.

Tip

It's always a good idea to try out an existing workflow before using it so that you know what it is really doing and what inputs it needs.

Creating a new workflow

In order to build a workflow that combines two or more existing workflows, we first need to create a new empty workflow. Just placing a workflow somewhere in the library isn't really that professional. So, we will create a new folder in the library that we will use to store our workflows in. This will also help us later when we create a new package for export (see Chapter 9, Packing It All Up).

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