Users Guide

Overview

The Dell Active System Manager integration for vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), formerly known as vCenter

Orchestrator (vCO), enables key automation functions, which can be embedded into vRealize

Orchestrator workflow. The workflow helps in provisioning infrastructure, capacity scaling, remediation

actions, and service teardown. These features help IT teams to broaden their business solutions, improve

responsiveness, and simplify complex IT processes.

The integration is developed using the VMware vRO SDK and Active System Manager’s newly published

REST APIs. The ASM Integration for vRO will be given to ASM customers to install it into their vRealize

Orchestrator environment. After installing the integration, customers can use the workflows packaged

with the plugin or they can create their own workflows using the ASM attributes implemented in the

creation of the plugin. IT administrators use the two main management products for this integration:

• VMware’s vCenter Server

• VMware vRealize Automation Center

ASM integration for vRealize Orchestrator also enables the vRealize Automation (vRA) to integrate with

VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO).

VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) allows:

• Any template in ASM, whether infrastructure or workload, to be published as a service in vCAC portal.

• Enables any ASM function to be called from vCO for broader orchestration.

vRealize Automation (vRA, formerly known as vCloud Automation Center) enables:

• Consumption portal and service catalog

• Broad workflow and process integration

• Aggregation of anything as a service, including any ASM-based template or ASM action such as

scaling and remediation

This integration enables unique services not supported by VMware, physical, hybrid physical-virtual,

multi-hypervisor, infrastructure scaling, remediation, and so on. The ASM vRO Integration supports vCO

and vRO versions 5.5 and 6.0.