VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook: Master the configuration, programming, and interaction of plugins with Orchestrator to efficiently automate your VMware infrastructure

787 Pages·2015·14.715 MB·English

by  Daniel Langenhan

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Table of Contents
VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
Best approaches to reading this book
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Example workflows
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Installing and Configuring Orchestrator
Introduction
Orchestrator and vRealize Automation (vRA)
Appliance or Windows install?
Orchestrator and vCenter/vRA on the same server?
Getting Orchestrator running in 5 minutes (or less)
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Getting ready
How to do it…
vCenter-integrated Orchestrator
vRealize Automation-integrated Orchestrator
How it works…
There’s more…
See also
Deploying the Orchestrator appliance
Getting ready
How to do it…
Download
Deploy
Let’s go…
How it works…
There’s more…
See also
Installing Orchestrator on Windows
Getting ready
How to do it…
Install
Starting and configuring the Orchestrator service
Accessing the vCenter Orchestrator home page
How it works…
Two ways to configure Orchestrator
Getting ready
How to do it…
Using the Orchestrator Configuration tool
Windows or vCenter-integrated Orchestrator
vRA-integrated Orchestrator
Accessing the Orchestrator Configuration tool
Using the workflow method
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Base-configuring Orchestrator
How it works…
The future of the Configuration tool
Working with errors in the workflow method
There’s more…
Important Orchestrator base configurations
Getting ready
How to do it…
Configuring the network
Using the Orchestrator Configuration tool
Using the workflow
Importing SSL certificates
Using the Orchestrator Configuration tool
Using the workflow
Licensing
Using the Orchestrator Configuration tool
Using the workflow
Creating a Server Package Signing certificate
Using the Orchestrator Configuration tool
Using the workflow
How it works…
See also
Configuring Orchestrator with an external LDAP or Active Directory
Getting ready
How to do it…
Creating an Orchestrator Admin group and user
Using the Orchestrator Configuration tool
Using the workflow
How it works…
There’s more…
Test login
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Common LDAP errors
See also
Integrating Orchestrator into SSO and vSphere Web Client
Getting ready
How to do it…
Registering Orchestrator with SSO
Using the Orchestrator Configuration tool
Using the workflow
Configuring the vCenter Server plugin
Using the Orchestrator Configuration tool
Using the workflow
Configuring the connection between vCenter Server and Orchestrator
How it works…
See also
Configuring an external database
Getting ready
How to do it…
Database information
Using the Orchestrator Configuration tool
Using the workflow
How it works…
Sizing
Database roles
There’s more…
Microsoft SQL
Oracle
2. Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration
Introduction
Service accounts
Ports and firewalls
Plugin basics
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Getting ready
How to do it…
Obtaining plugins
General plugin authentication
Installing plugins
Configuring plugins
How it works…
There’s more…
Shared session versus session per user
Resetting the plugins
See also
Tuning the appliance
Getting ready
How to do it…
Open the Orchestrator appliance admin area
Change the IP and hostname
Setting the time (NTP)
Turning SSH access to Orchestrator on and off
Using SSH to connect to the Orchestrator appliance operation system
Switching off unneeded services
Root account expires
How it works…
There’s more…
Accessing the local LDAP
Accessing the local database
See also
Tuning Java
Getting ready
How to do it…
Windows
Linux
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How it works…
Backup and recovery
Getting ready
How to do it…
Backup
Restore
How it works…
Database
See also
Creating an Orchestrator cluster
Getting ready
How to do it…
Configuring the database
SQL Server
Oracle server
Configuring the first Orchestrator server
Configuring the second Orchestrator server
Starting the cluster
How it works…
Making changes to the cluster
There’s more…
See also
Configuring the Orchestrator Service SSL certificate
Getting ready
How to do it…
Back up and remove the default certificates
Create a self-signed certificate
Using a CA-signed certificate
How it works…
Default, self-signed, or CA-signed?
What is this “Dunes” business in Orchestrator?
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See also
Configuring e-mail
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
Redirecting Orchestrator Syslog to an external Syslog server
Getting ready
How to do it…
Install VMware vSphere Syslog Collector
Working with VMware vSphere Syslog Collector
Redirecting Orchestrator for Syslog
How it works…
Log roll
There’s more…
See also
Configuring the Kerberos authentication
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
Configuring access to the local filesystem
Getting ready
How to do it…
Fast and easy
Configuring access
How it works…
There’s more…
Orchestrator appliance (Linux)
Windows
See also
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