http://www.vcoteam.info/tags/vro.html Recent content in vRO on vCO Team Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 19 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/newsflash/324-please-share-your-code-at-the-sample-exchange.html Mon, 19 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/newsflash/324-please-share-your-code-at-the-sample-exchange.html Last week, I was leading discussions at a Technical session for VMware's internal TechSummit event in Toronto, Canada. During one of the discussions, we ended up on the topic of where and how we were storing workflows and packages we had developed. I was a bit surprised that people in the room had workflows and packages in GitHubreposbut weren't aware of some aspects of the Sample Exchange at the VMware Code site! http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/319-how-to-disable-storage-i-o-stats-collection-with-powercli-or-vro.html Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/319-how-to-disable-storage-i-o-stats-collection-with-powercli-or-vro.html I recently came across a thread asking about how to disable Storage I/O Statistics Collection using PowerCLI. The thread referenced this article by Michael Webster: Disable SIOC IO Metrics Collection For Auto Tiering Storage Systems. In one of the comments, someone asked about using PowerCLI.. Unfortunately there was no answer there so I thought - I might be able to figure this out! With regards to checking that box, I can’t say whether it’s a good idea or not, my purpose here was just to illustrate how to do it via PowerCLI and vRO. http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/312-how-to-configure-vra-s-embedded-vro-to-allow-domain-account-login.html Wed, 26 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/312-how-to-configure-vra-s-embedded-vro-to-allow-domain-account-login.html Two years ago, I wrote a similar article around vCAC’s embedded vCO but a lot has changed since then so those older steps no longer apply. This brief article will quickly walk you through the steps required to allow vRealize Automation 7.0/7.1/7.2’s embedded vRealize Orchestrator to allow Active Directory Domain accounts login to the vRO Client. Pre-Requisites This article assumes the following: vRealize Automation 7.0-7.2 is installed and configured (NOTE: This has not been tested with 7. http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/311-how-to-limit-number-of-workflow-tokens.html Wed, 05 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/311-how-to-limit-number-of-workflow-tokens.html Each time vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) runs a workflow, a token (workflow execution) is added beneath the workflow in the vRO client. By default vRO will keep up to 100 of these tokens! This may be a slight annoyance to people who are only interested in the last 5-20 runs. This article will shed some light on the configuration options you have available to you. Tired of seeing too many workflow tokens? http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/vco-features/310-introducing-swagger-ui-on-vro-7-0-x.html Thu, 14 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/vco-features/310-introducing-swagger-ui-on-vro-7-0-x.html Although vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) has provided API documentation built-in to the server, it was static content that could not be quickly used for tests or building queries. When a product provides a nice API explorer that not only tells you the available urls and basic docs, but also provides a web-based UI that allows you to quickly build up custom calls and shows you the generated content, the consumption and integration time for developers is reduced considerably. http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/newsflash/309-vro-essentials-book-update-for-7-x.html Thu, 07 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/newsflash/309-vro-essentials-book-update-for-7-x.html Hello everyone! I've recently received news that there is some Errata update for the VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials book. The author has provided some updated material to reflect changes as a result of the GA of VMware vRealize Orchestrator 7.0. You can learn more about the updates here: http://langenhan.info/publications.html. http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/306-synchronize-presentation-settings-from-embedded-workflow.html Fri, 05 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/306-synchronize-presentation-settings-from-embedded-workflow.html VMware’s vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) is all about modular, reusable components. Many times you wish to call an existing workflow from your own custom workflow but don’t want to manually re-create all the different presentation settings. It’s not such a big task if there are only one or two workflows, but how about when there are 10+ ? Good news is that you don’t have to! This quick little video demonstrates how to Synchronize the Presentation of an embedded workflow to your own. http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/305-creating-json-objects-in-orchestrator.html Fri, 29 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/305-creating-json-objects-in-orchestrator.html Recently I saw a pair of articles by @RoeyAzroel on vRO XML & JSON Gotcha! - Part 1 and Part 2. This reminded me that I had some sample code that I refer to when working with json as well so figured I would share here. Be sure you know about the JSON object and its .parse and .stringify methods since they do not appear anywhere in the Orchestrator’s API explorer or documentation. http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/301-create-a-plug-in-for-a-rest-based-web-service-in-minutes-part-4.html Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/301-create-a-plug-in-for-a-rest-based-web-service-in-minutes-part-4.html In part 1 and part 2 we created the inventory objects, in part 3 we created methods for this objects and ran a generic workflow to run these methods. In this article we will create workflows for calling these methods, include them in a package with all the plug-in configuration to ship it to our end users. Creating the workflows The invoke workflows in the plug-in facilitate running REST operations. End users and or external system will expect simpler workflows. http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/300-create-a-plug-in-for-a-rest-based-web-service-in-minutes-part-3.html Wed, 25 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/300-create-a-plug-in-for-a-rest-based-web-service-in-minutes-part-3.html Part 1 of the plug-in generator v2 series covered how to create new plug-in inventory types, part 2 how to create their child object types. This part will focus on how to define object methods and associated workflows. Having Orchestrator inventory types is a necessity to use with vRealize Automation (formerly vCAC) Advanced Service Designer. Once you have these inventory objects you may wonder how to use these in workflows. This is what this article covers. http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/299-create-a-plug-in-for-a-rest-based-web-service-in-minutes-part-2.html Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/299-create-a-plug-in-for-a-rest-based-web-service-in-minutes-part-2.html In the part 1 I walk through step by step to create a plug-in object type leveraging the Plug-in Generator version 2. In this article I will demonstrate one of the new feature of this version 2 : Create a child object type. Having the plug-in inventory organized in a tree view allows to represent most of the objects hierarchies found in applications APIs. Resuming from part 1 I need to create a vNIC object. http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/297-how-to-use-powershell-to-start-an-orchestrator-workflow-2.html Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/297-how-to-use-powershell-to-start-an-orchestrator-workflow-2.html Okay now I have provided Python and [perl](/articles/learn-vco/296-how-to-use-perl-to-start-an-orchestrator-workflow.html" rel=“alternate) articles to start a vRealize Orchestrator (vRO / vCO) workflow via it’s REST API so now it’s time for a PowerShell script. For this article, I followed the same format as the previous two BUT provided the option to call the script with command line parameters! You may download the script in this article from my vroClientScripts Repository on GitHub. The Script The following code should be saved as something like runWorkflow. http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/294-sql-plug-in-dynamictypes-simple-cmdb-for-vcac-part-3.html Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/294-sql-plug-in-dynamictypes-simple-cmdb-for-vcac-part-3.html Welcome back! This is the third article of a multi-part series that steps you through the process of exposing our workflows from the last article to vRealize Automation’s (vRA) Advanced Service Designer (ASD). Introduction This third article will cover the following topics: How to add the simple CMDB to vRealize Automation’s Advanced Service Designer Add a Day 2 operation to delete an Asset from our table Future article will cover the following topic: http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/293-get-addresses-in-range.html Thu, 08 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/293-get-addresses-in-range.html vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) is frequently used with Network related automation which may involve working with IP Addresses. From an end user perspective, it is nice to specify a range of addresses such as 192.168.1.1-192.168.1.100 rather than having to specify all addresses. I found some simple Javascript in this Converting IP Addresses article that is easily adapted to vRO. You can use the code included in this article to either return an array of addresses in the range specified, or simplify it by returning the total number of addresses in the range. http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/292-sql-plug-in-dynamictypes-simple-cmdb-for-vcac-part-2.html Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/292-sql-plug-in-dynamictypes-simple-cmdb-for-vcac-part-2.html Welcome back! This is the second article of a multi-part series that steps you through the process of mapping a SQL table into vRealize Orchestrator, building out a DynamicTypes plug-in inventory based on that table, then exposing it to vRealize Automation’s Advanced Service Designer (ASD). In the first article, we got our database table mapped using the SQL Plug-in and generated some CRUD workflows. Introduction Let’s build a simple Dynamic Types plug-in around our SQL Table that we created in our previous article. http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/291-sql-plug-in-dynamictypes-simple-cmdb-for-vcac-part-1.html Fri, 05 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/learn-vco/291-sql-plug-in-dynamictypes-simple-cmdb-for-vcac-part-1.html This multi-part series will step you through the process of mapping a Microsoft SQL Server table into vRealize Orchestrator, building out a DynamicTypes plug-in inventory based on that table (using my workflow package), then exposing it to vRealize Automation’s Advanced Service Designer (ASD). Introduction vRealize Automation (vRA) features an Advanced Service Designer (ASD) that allows for you to offer nearly anything as a service (XaaS). In order to take advantage of that feature, it requires a vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) Inventory object. http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/newsflash/288-vmware-horizon-vcenter-orchestrator-plug-in-released.html Fri, 20 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.vcoteam.info/articles/newsflash/288-vmware-horizon-vcenter-orchestrator-plug-in-released.html Hello all you end user compute admins! If you've been waiting for a vCO plug-in for your Horizon environment, your wait is over. Join Aaron Black in this "Getting Started with vCenter Orchestrator Horizon Plug In" video. In order to get the plug-in, you must be licensed for Horizon 6.0 Enterprise. For a quick link to the download (login required at VMware's site), click Links -> Plug Ins, then scroll down to the "