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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook

Over 90 recipes to satisfy all your automation needs and leverage vRealize Orchestrator 7.1 for your projects

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|Sep 2025
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Over 90 recipes to satisfy all your automation needs and leverage vRealize Orchestrator 7.1 for your projects

Key Features

  • Unleash the power of VMware vRealize Orchestrator 7 and automate your VMware infrastructure
  • Customize and tune your orchestrator by programming and working with plugins
  • Work through enticing recipes that can be implemented in your organization
  • Explore the new and upcoming plugins of Puppet, Docker, Chef, and VMware Replication for VMware vRealize Orchestrator

Book Description

VMware vRealize Orchestrator is a powerful automation tool designed for system administrators and IT operations staff who are planning to streamline their tasks and are waiting to integrate the functions with third-party operations software. This book is an update to VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook and is blend of numerous recipes on vRealize Orchestrator 7.
This book starts with installing and configuring vRealize Orchestrator. We will demonstrate how to upgrade from previous versions to vRealize Orchestrator 7. You will be taught all about orchestrator plugins and how to use and develop various plugins that have been enhanced in Orchestrator 7. Throughout this book, you will explore the new features of Orchestrator 7, such as the introduction of the control center, along with its uses.
You will also come to understand visual programming, how to integrate base plugins into workflows, and how to automate VMware. You will also get to know how to troubleshoot vRealize Orchestrator.
By the end of this book, you will be able to get the most out of your Orchestrator installation, and will be able to develop complex workflows and create your own highly integrated automations of vRealize environments.

What you will learn

  • vRO 7.1, reworked, refocused
  • Configure an optimize vRO installations including vRO Clusters and vRA integrated vRO
  • Design better clustered and distributed vRO solutions
  • Work with vRO more efficient and created better workflows
  • Access vRO workflows using REST, PowerShell and PHP
  • Use all standard plugins such as XML, REST, PowerShell, AD, SQL, SSH, Mail and lots more
  • Use additional plugins such as NSX, Horizon, vROPs, Replication and SRM
  • Integrate and use vRO with vRealize Automation (XaaS and Event Manager)
  • around 140 example workflows and actions (download form packed website)
  • more then 90 recipes

Who this book is for

This book is for system administrators who are into VMware administration and are looking to automate their infrastructure. Basic knowledge about programming is needed. No previous knowledge of Orchestrator is required.
This book will also be good for you if you have just a basic knowledge with vRealize Orchestrator, as you can pick up any recipe and implement it for your enterprise.

Table of Contents

  1. Installing and Configuring Orchestrator
  2. Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration
  3. Distributed Design
  4. Programming Skills
  5. Visual Programming
  6. Advanced Programming
  7. Interacting with Orchestrator
  8. Better Workflows and Optimized Working
  9. Essential Plugins
  10. Built in Plugins
  11. Additional Plugins
  12. Working with vSphere
  13. Working with vRealize Automation
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78646-286-2
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2016 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 556