VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials: Get hands-on experience with vRealize Orchestrator and automate your VMware environment

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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials

Chapter 2. Deploying and Configuring the Orchestrator Appliance

The Orchestrator Appliance is a Linux-based appliance that comes completely preconfigured and ready to run. An appliance is basically a fully installed and configured VM with an operating system, also known in the industry as shrink-wrapped. In this chapter, you will learn how to deploy the appliance as well as base configure it. Along the way, we will look at the following topics:

Downloading vRO
Installing vRO
Accessing Orchestrator
Base configure the Orchestrator Appliance
The Orchestrator configuration tools

Accessing Orchestrator

Orchestrator has its own little webserver that can be accessed by any web browser.

Accessing the Orchestrator home page

We will now access the Orchestrator home page:

Open a web browser such as Mozilla Firefox, IE, or Google Chrome.
Enter the IP or FQDN of the Orchestrator Appliance.
The Orchestrator home page will open. It looks like the following screenshot:

The home page contains some very useful links, as shown in the above screenshot. Here is an explanation of some of them:

Number	Description
1	Click here to start the Orchestrator Java Client. You can also access the Client directly by visiting `https://[IP or FQDN]:8281/vco/client/client.jnlp`.
2	Click here to download and install the Orchestrator Java Client locally.
3	Click here to access the Orchestrator Configurator, which is scheduled to disappear soon. The way forward will be Orchestrator Control Center.
4	This is a selection of links that can be used to find helpful information and download plugins. ...

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The automation of virtual environments has become the focus of many endeavors. VMware vRealize Orchestrator is a tool that enables you to automate not only your VMware environments, but also the surrounding hardware and software infrastructure. Orchestrator is also a central tool in the VMware cloud initiative and is extensively used by products such as vRealize Automation. In this book, you will learn how Orchestrator is able to help you automate your complete VMware infrastructure as well as its surrounding hardware and software. After deploying and configuring the vRealize Orchestrator appliance, you will learn how to run the existing workflows that are a part of the Orchestrator library. You will also see how the vSphere Web Client integration of Orchestrator reduces the time you spend on your daily admin tasks. The main aspect here is to learn how to create new workflows from existing ones. You will also look at how you can create completely new workflows. This includes learning about JavaScript and using presentation features to improve the layout and user friendliness of your workflows. Toward the end, you will learn to check for errors in your workflows and debug them. By the time you're done with the book, you'll be proficient in managing your workflows.

Who is this book for?

This book is for VMware vSphere administrators who have minimal experience with automation tools and want to learn how to effectively automate their environment with VMware vRealize Orchestrator. A basic understanding of the VMware vSphere terms and concepts would be helpful.

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Stefan Nov 08, 2015

As reviewer of this book and a complete novice to Orchestrator, this book turned out to be the ideal introduction to this topic that I ever wanted to dive into but never had the time for. Without consuming much time, it quickly leads to productive and motivating results. It is much more useful than any other introduction to this topic (including tutorials by VMware).Especially, I like chapter 6 where you get a very good and practical introduction into JavaScript.

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Matteo Oct 31, 2015

This book provides a quick walkthrough to vRealize Orchestrator(most of the book content will be still be useful to users of vSphere 5.5) showing what to do to set it up and to create your first automation workflows. Orchestrator documentation is kinda scarce so if you plan to set it up you should give this book a shot!

OG05 Apr 29, 2016

Very clear explanations of the vCenter Orchestrator. He led me learning and using it at my job.

Larryk Jan 08, 2019

I have used Kindle previews to make decisions on other purchases I have made, but this one gave me no clue of the quality of the book, Info about the author and prefaces are good info but does not represent the knowledge transfer the author is presenting.

Amazon Customer Jul 29, 2016

This was not comprehensive nor worth the value that I paid for it, it was poorly written and a very light read for the price tag, I do not recommend this for any real professionals

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials: Get hands-on experience with vRealize Orchestrator and automate your VMware environment

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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials

Chapter 2. Deploying and Configuring the Orchestrator Appliance

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Downloading the appliance

Deploying the Orchestrator Appliance

Deploying the Appliance with vCenter

Accessing Orchestrator

Accessing the Orchestrator home page

Base configure the Orchestrator Appliance

What is preconfigured?

The Orchestrator configuration tools

Orchestrator Configurator

Preparations

Downloading the appliance

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