EMC VMAX, VNX, VMware vSphere, vCloud Director integration powered by vCenter Orchestrator

October 19, 2011

EMC released a Compute as a Service white paper documenting design considerations leveraging vCenter Orchestrator and its vCloud Director, AMQP and REST plug-in

With these components EMC created a workflow running the following operations:

Provision storage from EMC Symmetrix VMAX or EMC VNX based on the vCenter High Availability cluster.
Create the datastore.
Create the provider virtual datacenter.
Create the organization virtual datacenter within the provider virtual datacenter.
Create the catalog on the organization datacenter

The whitepaper shows the workflow design, a simple custom web portal to start it and the workflow execution record.

For more information check the EMC Compute as a Service white paper. vCenter Orchestrator is covered from page 27 to page 34.

Christophe has worked at VMware, Inc., where he started in 2007 after VMware acquired Dunes. Based in Gland, Switzerland, Christophe is a global resource supporting customers in their orchestration and automation needs. He has presented orchestration solutions at conferences such as VMworld and is the primary contributor to this site.