6.5.1

Working with Workflows
You can view information about Orchestrator workows, run, and schedule workows by using the
vSphere Web Client.
You can perform some scheduling and running tasks on the Orchestrator workows from the
vRealize Orchestrator view in the vSphere Web Client. You can schedule a workow to run at a specied
time or start a workow directly, by right-clicking a vSphere inventory object and selecting All vRealize
Orchestrator plugin Actions.
Workow 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 Serverextension. You register Orchestrator as a
vCenter Server extension when you specify a user account that has the necessary 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 147.
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.
N If you cannot nd the expected workows, you might need to associate them to the specied
vSphere inventory object.
5 Click the Start/Schedule menu option.
6 (Optional) Select Run now to start the workow run immediately.
7 Provide the required workow parameters.
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