6.1.0
Table Of Contents
- Using the vCenter Orchestrator Plug-In for vCloud Automation Center 6.1
- Contents
- Using the vCenter Orchestrator Plug-In for vCloud Automation Center 6.1
- Introduction to the VMware vCenter Orchestrator Plug-In for vCloud Automation Center
- Configuring the vCloud Automation Center Plug-In
- Using the vCloud Automation Center Plug-In
- Using the vCloud Automation Center Plug-In Inventory
- Using the vCloud Automation Center Plug-In Administration Workflows
- Using the vCloud Automation Center Plug-In Infrastructure Administration Workflows
- Using the vCloud Automation Center Plug-In Requests Workflows
- Using the vCloud Automation Center Plug-In Sample Workflows
- Access the vCloud Automation Center Plug-In API
- Examples of Scripts for Common vCloud Automation Center Tasks
- Examples of Scripts for CRUD vCloud Automation Center Infrastructure Administration Tasks
- Examples of Scripts for Finding vCloud Automation Center Entities
- An Example Script for Getting a Virtual Machine Provisioned as a vCloud Automation Center Catalog Resource
- An Example Script for Content Transfer Between vCloud Automation Center Hosts
- Index
Introduction to the VMware
vCenter Orchestrator Plug-In for
vCloud Automation Center 1
The VMware vCenter Orchestrator plug-in for vCloud Automation Center allows interaction between
vCenter Orchestrator and vCloud Automation Center.
You can use the vCloud Automation Center plug-in to create and run workflows for the following
vCloud Automation Center functions:
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Service management
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Catalog item and resource management and requesting
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Advanced Services custom resource and blueprint management
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Entitlement configuration
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Approval policy configuration
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Work item interactions
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vSphere and vCloud Director virtual machine provisioning and post-provisioning actions
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Create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations on the vCloud Automation Center IaaS model
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Role of vCenter Orchestrator with the vCloud Automation Center Plug-In,” on page 7
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“Installing the vCloud Automation Center Plug-In,” on page 8
Role of vCenter Orchestrator with the vCloud Automation Center
Plug-In
You use the Orchestrator client to run and create workflows and access the plug-in API. You can use either
the embedded vCenter Orchestrator instance in your vCloud Automation Center installation, or an external
vCenter Orchestrator server.
vCenter Orchestrator powers the vCloud Automation Center plug-in. Orchestrator is a development and
process-automation platform that provides a library of extensible workflows to manage the vCenter
infrastructure and other technologies.
Orchestrator allows integration with management and administration solutions through its open plug-in
architecture.
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