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Table Of Contents
- Life Cycle Extensibility
- Contents
- Life Cycle Extensibility
- Machine Extensibility Overview
- Extending Machine Lifecycles By Using vRealize Orchestrator
- Configuring Workflow Subscriptions to Extend vRealize Automation
- Event Topics Provided with vRealize Automation
- Workflow Subscriptions and Event Broker Terminology
- Blockable and Replyable Event Topics
- Best Practices for Creating vRealize Orchestrator Workflows for Workflow Subscriptions
- Workflow Subscription Settings
- Working with Provisioning and Life Cycle Workflow Subscriptions
- Configuring vRealize Orchestrator Workflows for Provisioning and Life Cycle Workflows
- Workflow Subscription Life Cycle State Definitions
- Configuring the Timeout Values for States and Events
- Configuring the Error Behavior for States and Events
- Scenario: Take a Post-Provisioning Snapshot of a Virtual Machine
- Working with Approval Workflow Subscriptions
- Troubleshooting Workflow Subscriptions
- Troubleshooting vRealize Orchestrator Workflows That Do Not Start
- Troubleshooting Provisioning Requests That Take Too Much Time
- Troubleshooting a vRealize Orchestrator Workflow That Does Not Run for an Approval Request
- Troubleshooting a Rejected Approval Request That Should Be Approved
- Troubleshooting a Rejected Approval Request
- Extending Machine Life Cycles By Using vRealize Automation Designer
- Extending Machine Life Cycles By Using vRealize Automation Designer Checklist
- Installing and Configuring vRealize Automation Designer
- Customizing IaaS Workflows By Using vRealize Automation Designer
- Workflows and Distributed Execution Management
- CloudUtil Command Reference
- vRealize Automation Workflow Activity Reference
Table 2‑1. Extending Machine Lifecycles by Using vRealize Orchestrator Checklist
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Task Details
Create a vRealize Automation endpoint for your
vRealize Orchestrator instance.
Create a vRealize Orchestrator Endpoint
Use the workflow template provided in the
Extensibility subdirectory of the vRealize Automation
plugin library to create a custom
vRealize Orchestrator workflow to run during the
machine lifecycle. You can run multiple workflows in
the same state for the same blueprint as long as you
nest them under a single wrapper workflow.
For information about developing workflows with vRealize Orchestrator,
see the vRealize Orchestrator documentation. For training in
vRealize Orchestrator development for vRealize Automation integrations,
see the training courses available from VMware Education and the
instructional material provided by VMware Learning.
Run the provided workflow that inserts your custom
workflow into an IaaS workflow stub and configures a
blueprint to call the IaaS workflow stub.
Note The workflow stubs are being replaced by the
event broker workflow subscriptions. They are still
available, supported, and they can be used, but
expect them to be removed in a future version of
vRealize Automation. To ensure future product
compatibility, you should use the workflow
subscriptions to run custom workflows based on state
changes. See Chapter 3 Configuring Workflow
Subscriptions to Extend vRealize Automation.
Assign a State Change Workflow to a Blueprint and Its Virtual Machines
Installing the vRealize Automation Plug-In
The vRealize Automation plug-in is installed on the embedded vRealize Orchestrator instance in your
vRealize Automation installation. You can use the control center of an external vRealize Orchestrator
server to install the vRealize Automation plug-in.
vCenter Orchestrator Integration Prerequisites
If you are using vRealize Automation workflows to execute vRealize Orchestrator workflows that have
input or output parameters of type VC:VirtualMachine, verify that you have the vRealize Orchestrator
workflows for converting virtual machine types between vRealize Orchestrator and IaaS.
The required workflows are included by default in vRealize Orchestrator 5.5 and later as part of the
vCenter plugin.
If you are using vRealize Orchestrator 5.1, install the vRealize Automation integration package for
vRealize Orchestrator. Download the package com.vmware.library.vcenter.vcac-
integration.package from thevRealize Orchestrator community site at
http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/server/vcenter/orchestrator. Import the package on each
vRealize Orchestrator server that you set up as an endpoint in IaaS.
For information about importing packages to vRealize Orchestrator, refer to the vRealize Orchestrator
documentation.
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