No worries if you missed the live broadcast. It is available below. We had a very active session for just under an hour. Hope you enjoy(ed) the show :)
For the vCO portion of the discussion, we had Burke Azbill and John Stanford from VMware's Cloud Services team!
VMware Communities Roundtable
Title:#130 - vCloud Connector and other delights
Be sure to visit the VMware Communities Roundtable where VMware experts talk about virtualization live every Wednesday at noon California time.
Today VMware released the most complete automation solution for vCloud Director as a free download !
This is a plug-in for vCenter Orchestrator allowing to orchestrate vCloud Director (and not the other way around, vCD 1.01 does not have the ability to start an external process).
In terms of functionality the plug-in allows:
Tenants to automate catalogs and vApp provisioning and decommissioning operations within their organization.
Service providers to automate the configuration and management of the tenant organizations, their virtual data centers and their resources.
Yesterday, vCenter Orchestrator 4.1.1 was released as part of vCenter 4.1 Update 1. This is mainly a bug fix release.
According to the release notes the resolved issues are:
Parent permissions are not propagated to a child object
Orchestrator Configuration might not export or import the license configuration
"Remove Snapshot" and "Add host to cluster" workflow incorrect behavior
Inconsistencies in library workflow names
XML encoding
Also the SSHSession object was improved with new functionality.
No worries if you missed the live broadcast. It is available below. We had a very active session for just under an hour. Hope you enjoy(ed) the show :)
VMware Communities Roundtable
Title:#115 - VMware Orchestrator - Orchestrating the Cloud
Hello everyone! I just had a great interview with @Mike_Laverick of RTFM Education where we talked at length about VMware's vCenter Orchestrator! Keep an eye out for a new episode of "Chinwag with Mike" in a few weeks :)
And even sooner, I've just been requested to participate in today's VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast by @jtroyer. Be sure to stop by!
One final note: we have setup a Twitter account as you may have noticed here on our page.
My friend Christian and I want to support vCO starter with basic examples and features in vCO. We often read in community and blogs "how can I do this...". So here are the first posts.
Sorting array
Functions
Secure LDAP
Mount a NFS datastore
Setting DRS mode
Just come back here to see the list continued and / or follow our blog.
Regards, Andreas
Abhinav Joshi from NetApp has written a detailed article on what the orchestration demonstrations showcased during VMworld 2010 San Francisco. These were featuring vCenter Orchestrator 4.1 with the addition of:
VMware vCloud Director vCO plug-in technical previewNetApp Provisioning Manager vCO plug-in technical previewNetApp FlexClone vCO plug-in technical previewAnd matching applications.
Quoting the original article with the vCO demos:
Demo 1: Automated and orchestrated provisioning of infrastructure resources and virtual datacenters in VMware vCloud Director
The following videos are a preview of the upcoming VMware vCloud Director vCO plug-in. Since its release with vCenter 4, the main vCO plug-in has been for vCenter by fully supporting its API and providing several technical workflows. vCloud Director is already becoming VMware's next major API and as such will be fully supported by a vCO plug-in. The demonstration below shows examples on how to take advantage of this new plug-in and benefit from vCO powered automation.
We are proud to announce that vCO Team members and VMware labs today released a vCO (4.1) VIX plug-in for the VIX API version 1.10. If you wonder what VIX is here is an extract of the VIX landing page:
"The VIX API allows you to write programs and scripts that automate virtual machine operations, as well as the guests within virtual machines. This API is high-level, easy to use, and practical for both script writers and application programmers.
VMware has announced a few days ago that LCM is End of Life. Please check the FAQ for more details.
For those of you not familiar with it, VMware Lifecycle Manager is a workflow based application running on top of vCenter Orchestrator. vCenter Orchestrator is not impacted by the LCM EOA.
