6.0.1

Managing Workflows
You can view dierent information about Orchestrator workows, run and schedule workows and manage
them by using the vSphere Web Client.
You can perform some management tasks on the Orchestrator workows from the vRealize Orchestrator
view in the vSphere Web Client. You can also perform some of the tasks by right-clicking a vSphere
inventory object and selecting All vRealize Orchestrator plugin Actions.
Workow management tasks include:
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Running workows on vSphere inventory objects, such as virtual machines, ESXi hosts, clusters,
resource pools, and folders.
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Viewing information about workow runs.
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Viewing information about workows waiting for user interaction.
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Searching for a specic workow from the list of available workows.
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Scheduling workows.
Run Workflows on vSphere Inventory Objects
You can automate management tasks in vSphere by running Orchestrator workows directly on objects
from the vSphere inventory.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you have congured at least one Orchestrator server to work with the same Single Sign-On
instance to which both the vCenter Server and vSphere Web Client are pointing. You must also ensure
that Orchestrator is registered as a vCenter Server extension. You register Orchestrator as a vCenter
Server extension when you specify a user (by providing the user name and password), who has the
privileges to manage vCenter Server extensions. For more information, see Installing and Conguring
VMware vRealize Orchestrator.
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Verify that you have workows associated with the vSphere inventory objects. See “Associate
Workows with vSphere Inventory Object Types,” on page 149.
Procedure
1 Click vCenter.
2 Under Inventory Lists, click an inventory category.
3 Right-click the object that you want to run the workow on, and navigate to All vRealize Orchestrator
plugin Actions.
All available workows that you can run on the selected inventory object are listed.
4 Click the workow that you want to run.
5 Provide the required workow parameters.
6 (Optional) Schedule the workow to run at a specied time.
a In the Task name text box, type the name of the scheduled task.
b (Optional) In the Description text box, type a description of the scheduled task.
c Schedule the date and time of the workow run.
d Specify the recurrence options.
7 Click Finish.
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