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Configuring and Using vRealize Orchestrator (vCO/vRO) Multi-node plugin
To quote the release notes for the latest version of vCO/vRO Multi-node Plugin: The VMware vCenter Orchestrator Multi-Node Plug-In allows organizations to manage environments with multiple vCenter...
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vRealize Operations (vCO) Multi-node Plug-in use case: Remote Site Selection...
One of the use cases I’ve been working on with a customer is based on the vRO/vCO multi-node plug-in and involves the master vRO/vCO node calling proxy workflows based on a parameter – in this case the...
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Generating a secure random password with vRealize Orchestrator (vRO/vCO)
It’s a fairly common requirement when creating a new user to assign a randomly generated password, so during a recent engagement I wrote a little password generator to do that. I wanted to be able to...
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3DES Password Based Encryption with vRealize Orchestrator (vRO/vCO)
A requirement that often arises in large, complex orchestration projects is the need to encrypt and decrypt information. One such requirement recently specified triple DES password based encryption as...
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Performance tweak – increasing Max Heap Size for the vRealize Orchestrator...
I’m developing some very large, very complicated workflows for vRealize Orchestrator (vRO/vCO), and as it’s a Java based application it will probably come as no surprise to many that the performance of...
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vRealize Orchestrator (vRO/vCO) and vCloud Director – fixing bugs in "Add a vDC"
When you are using a VMware orchestration platform with an official VMware plugin to manage a VMware product, you don’t really expect to have to fix the out-of-the-box workflows. However, during some...
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vRealize Orchestrator (vRO/vCO) – Troubleshooting SOAP operations
Recently, I’ve had a bit of a SOAP baptism of fire – the project I am working on makes hundreds of SOAP calls to multiple SOAP APIs on multiple hosts. During this time I’ve encountered some common and...
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vSphere 6 Lab Upgrade – vCenter Orchestrator to vRealize Orchestrator
Posts in this seriesvSphere 6 Lab Upgrade - OverviewvSphere 6 Lab Upgrade - vCenter Server AppliancevSphere 6 Lab Upgrade - Upgrading ESXi 5.5vSphere 6 Lab Upgrade - VSANvSphere 6 Lab Upgrade - vCenter...
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vRealize Orchestrator REST API –"Connection pool shut down"
If you use the in-built vRealize Orchestrator instance shipped with the vRealize Automation appliance then you might run into this issue when working with the REST client: Connection pool shut down...
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Adding a vCloud Air (PAYG/Gen2) instance to vRealize Orchestrator as a vCloud...
Big thanks to Jose Luis Gomez for this solution, his response to my tweet was spot on and invaluable! I’ve been trying to configure vCloud Air as a vCloud Director host in vRealize Orchestrator in...
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Increasing the Java Heap size for vRealize Orchestrator Client (7.x)
Back in January 2015 I wrote an article on how to modify the Java heap settings for the vCenter Orchestrator client when working with very large workflows. Since vRealize Orchestrator 7.x has been...
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vRealize Orchestrator Workflow: shutdownVSANCluster
My vSphere lab is split into two halves – a low power management cluster, powered by 3 Intel NUCs, and a more hefty workload cluster powered by a Dell C6100 chassis with 3 nodes. The workload servers...
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Configuring and Using vRealize Orchestrator (vCO/vRO) Multi-node plugin
To quote the release notes for the latest version of vCO/vRO Multi-node Plugin: The VMware vCenter Orchestrator Multi-Node Plug-In allows organizations to manage environments with multiple vCenter...
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vRealize Orchestrator (vCO) Multi-node Plug-in use case: Remote Site...
One of the use cases I’ve been working on with a customer is based on the vRO/vCO multi-node plug-in and involves the master vRO/vCO node calling proxy workflows based on a parameter – in this case the...
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Generating a secure random password with vRealize Orchestrator (vRO/vCO)
It’s a fairly common requirement when creating a new user to assign a randomly generated password, so during a recent engagement I wrote a little password generator to do that. I wanted to be able to...
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3DES Password Based Encryption with vRealize Orchestrator (vRO/vCO)
A requirement that often arises in large, complex orchestration projects is the need to encrypt and decrypt information. One such requirement recently specified triple DES password based encryption as...
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Performance tweak – increasing Max Heap Size for the vRealize Orchestrator...
[Update Dec 2016: An updated article for vRO 7.x is available here] I’m developing some very large, very complicated workflows for vRealize Orchestrator (vRO/vCO), and as it’s a Java based application...
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vRealize Orchestrator (vRO/vCO) and vCloud Director – fixing bugs in "Add a vDC"
When you are using a VMware orchestration platform with an official VMware plugin to manage a VMware product, you don’t really expect to have to fix the out-of-the-box workflows. However, during some...
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vRealize Orchestrator (vRO/vCO) – Troubleshooting SOAP operations
Recently, I’ve had a bit of a SOAP baptism of fire – the project I am working on makes hundreds of SOAP calls to multiple SOAP APIs on multiple hosts. During this time I’ve encountered some common and...
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vSphere 6 Lab Upgrade – vCenter Orchestrator to vRealize Orchestrator
I tested vSphere 6 quite intensively when it was in beta, but I didn’t ever upgrade my lab – basically because I need a stable environment to work on and I wasn’t sure that I could maintain that with...
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