6.0.1

Workflows for Managing Inventory Objects
The default workows for managing vSphere inventory objects are the workows included in the vCenter
Server 5.5 plug-in workow library. The vCenter Server 5.5 plug-in workow library contains workows
that you can use to run automated processes related to the vCenter Server and host management.
To access workows in the vSphere Web Client, make sure that you congure at least one running
Orchestrator server to work with the same Single Sign-On instance to which both 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.
The common workow to access the available workows is the following:
1 Congure the Orchestrator server with the same Single Sign-On insance to which both vCenter Server
and vSphere Web Client point.
2 Ensure that Orchestrator is registered as a vCenter Server extension.
3 In the vSphere Web Client, congure the default Orchestrator server to use.
For instructions about conguring the default Orchestrator server, see “Congure the Default vRealize
Orchestrator,” on page 149.
4 (Optional) To see more workows when you right-click an object from your vSphere inventory, you can
associate workows with dierent object types.
For instructions, see “Associate Workows with vSphere Inventory Object Types,” on page 149.
5 Right-click a vSphere inventory object, such as a virtual machine, host, cluster, folder, datastore,
resource pool, and so on, and select All vRealize Orchestrator plugin Actions.
N Only a predened set of vCenter Server workows are available by default in the pop-up menu. You
can associate additional workows with each vSphere object. See “Associate Workows with vSphere
Inventory Object Types,” on page 149.
Cluster and Compute Resource Workflows
With cluster and compute resource workows, you can create, rename or delete a cluster, and enable or
disable high availability on a cluster.
Add DRS virtual
machine group to
cluster
Adds a DRS virtual machine group to a cluster.
Add virtual machines to
DRS group
Adds a virtual machine list to an existing DRS virtual machine group.
Create cluster
Creates a new cluster in a host folder.
Delete cluster
Deletes a cluster.
Disable DRS on cluster
Disables DRS on a cluster.
Disable HA on cluster
Disables high availability on a cluster.
Disable vCloud
Distributed Storage on
cluster
Disables vCloud Distributed Storage on a cluster.
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