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Table 3‑10. Infrastructure Administration
Workflow Name Description
Create a vCAC model entity Creates and persists an entity for a specified
vCloud Automation Center model.
Delete a vCAC model entity Deletes a specified vCloud Automation Center model
entity.
Invoke a post-provisioning action Invokes a specified post-provisioning action on a virtual
machine.
Provision a virtual machine from a blueprint Provisions a virtual machine from a
vCloud Automation Center blueprint.
Read a vCAC entity by custom filter Reads a list of vCloud Automation Center entities by using
a custom filter. If you do not specify a filter, all entities are
returned as a result.
Read a vCAC model entity Reads a vCloud Automation Center model entity by its ID.
Update a vCAC model entity Updates a vCloud Automation Center model entity by its
ID.
Await virtual machine state change Awaits a state change for a set of virtual machines. If all
virtual machines are in the success state, a trigger is called
and the workflow ends successfully. If any of the specified
virtual machines are in fail state, or they do not exist, the
workflow fails. A virtual machine can be set to one of the
following states:
n
Requested
n
AwaitingApproval
n
RegisterMachine
n
BuildingMachine
n
AddingDisks
n
MachineProvisioned
n
MachineActivated
n
InstallTools (VMware only)
n
On
n
Off
n
TurningOn
n
TurningOff
n
ShuttingDown
n
Suspending
n
Resetting
n
Rebooting
n
Expired
n
DeactivateMachine
n
UnprovisionMachine
n
Disposing
n
Finalized
Read a vCAC entity by system query Reads a list of vCloud Automation Center entities by using
OData system filters. The system filters apply to the OData
URI convention. For information about OData URI
conventions, see
http://www.odata.org/documentation/odata-v2-
documentation/uri-conventions/.
You use the workflows in the Extensibility subdirectory to customize vCloud Automation Center with the
ability to call vCenter Orchestrator workflows either as part of the provisioning process, or by custom
operation menus.
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