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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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Working with packages

As we saw in the last section, exporting a workflow will only export it and not the objects that we used in it. Therefore, we should have a look at packages. Packages export and import all the dependent objects that are needed to run the workflow and not just a single object.

Creating a package

Before we go ahead and export a package, we have to create one, as follows:

  1. In your Orchestrator Client, make sure that you are in the Design mode.
  2. Click on Packages, Creating a package.
  3. Select Add Package, Creating a package, from the side menu.
  4. As package name, select com.packtpub.Orchestrator-essentials.
  5. You will see that a new package has been added to the end of the package list.
Creating a package

Filling a package

Now that we have created the package, we need to fill it with objects, as follows:

  1. Starting from where we left off, right-click on the newly created package and select Edit.
  2. Select Workflows.
  3. Click on the green + button.
  4. Find the InstallFreshVM workflow, mark it, and click on Select.
  5. You will now see that the workflow has...
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