vCenter Orchestrator

Thursday, July 3. 2014

vCAC Custom Property Toolkit for vCO

This vCO package created by Dan Linsley aims to include workflows to Create/Remove/Update/Delete vCAC custom properties on more than just VirtualMachine objects. It is dependent on the vCAC IaaS Plugin for vCO. So far it has workflows for manipulating properties on Build Profiles, Management Endpoints, Property Sets, Property Dictionary Definitions/Attributes and Business Group (vCAC 6.x) / Provisioning Group (vCAC 5.x).

Updated Added Workflows:

Build Profiles\Delete Many Build Profiles
Business Groups\Copy Business Group Properties
Property Dictionary\Copy Property Definition
Endpoints\Copy Endpoint Properties
Endpoints\Create / Update Property on Endpoint
Endpoints\Delete Property from Endpoint
Endpoints\Export Endpoint Properties as Property Set XML
Endpoints\Import Endpoint Properties From Property Set XML
Added description output to workflows:
Build Profiles\Get Build Profile Entity
Build Profiles\Export Build Profile as Property Set XML
Added attributeNames and controlTypeName outputs to workflow:
Property Dictionary\Get Property Definition Entity

https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-26693

Friday, April 4. 2014

Using the vCenter Orchestrator REST API

The Orchestrator REST API provides functionality that allows you to communicate with the Orchestrator server directly through HTTP and perform various workflow-related operations over workflows.

The Orchestrator REST API exposes the objects from the inventories of the Orchestrator server and the installed plug-ins as resources at predefined URLs.

You make HTTP calls at these URLs to trigger operations in Orchestrator. In this way, you can perform various tasks over workflows:

Run a workflow, schedule a workflow, retrieve the runs of a workflow, answer to a user interaction, and cancel a workflow run.
Retrieve details about a workflow such as its input and output parameters and its presentation.
Retrieve details about a workflow run, such as its state, generated logs, start date, and end date. Browse the inventories of Orchestrator and the installed plug-ins.
Import and export workflows, actions, and packages.

By using the Orchestrator REST API you can easily integrate Orchestrator workflows in custom applications that you can build in any programing language.

Developing a Web Services Client for VMware vCenter Orchestrator

How to use the REST API to Start a Workflow

Sunday, March 24. 2013

Video - Run Workflows from the vSphere Web Client

Beyond the initial installation, operators can also take advantage of the automation capabilities of vCenter Orchestrator because of its new integration with the vSphere Web Client and the vCenter Single Sign On component. Operators can run workflows from the vSphere inventory browser in just a couple of clicks. Based on the object from which it is run, a workflow's input parameters also get populated automatically to save time and eliminate errors. Operators can run multiple workflows concurrently, or schedule them as recurring or future off-hour tasks. For large organizations, administrators can allow different groups of operators to have access to different categories of workflows.

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