Automating with vRO 7 - Part 10 - Creating vCenter Objects with a vRO Workflow

This is the tenth video in a ten part video series. In this video, Brian Watrous demonstrates how to create an Orchestrator workflow that builds a hierarchy of vSphere objects.

This following is an index for the numerous topics addressed in this video:

1:47 Building the lab environment
7:17 Examining the vCenter inventory with different clients
15:26 Creating a datacenter folder with the vSphere Web Client.
18:31 Running a vRO workflow to create a datacenter folder
23:21 Creating a vRO workflow to create the vCenter hierarchy
24:43 Searching for WF (technique #1 - Workflow schema element)
34:26 Creating a datacenter in the vRO workflow
34:57 Searching for WF (technique #2 - All Workflows)
38:06 When variable names collide
45:37 Explanation of an exception message
48:34 Adding a cluster to a datacenter in the vRO workflow
49:00 Searching for WF (technique #3 - Tools -- Search)
57:41 Writing Javascript to get a datacenter’s host folder (scriptable task)
1:03:07 Using the API explorer to look up a property name
1:10:42 Adding a host to a cluster in the vRO workflow
1:16:43 Writing Javascript to get a datacenter’s VM folder (action)
1:26:24 Calling an action from the vRO workflow
1:30:55 Creating another action

If you are interested in learning about vRealize Orchestration in depth, attend one of the following courses:

Data Center Automation with vRealize Orchestrator and vSphere PowerCLI

VMware Cloud Orchestration and Extensibility [V7.6]

[sbrownc]

Excellent series of videos. Thank you for putting this out there for everyone.

[ravibcb]

Many thanks for posting these learning videos. Appreciate your time and help.

[funbobb]

Sir, ur Videos are very helpful and informative. It's really help us to understand the product and concept. Thank U very much!

[Vjiesh]

Thank you! Your videos have been very helpful :)

[vmwarelab]

HOL-2021-04-CMP is the new version of the HOL-1821-05-CMP that includes vRO 7.6 and the vRealize Suite 2018 fleet of products.

[vmwarelab]

Hello Brian. you don't have an issue with you disconnect a host but you do have an issue when you remove a host from the inventory if it happens to be connected to a vDS at the datacenter level

[MohamedRoushdy]

very informative. I'd like to thank you so much

[sbrownc]

Wondering if there is any way to transfer a package to the Hands on Labs environment, i.e. I want to download the VVORK example package and use it in the HOL environment. I would also like to be able to try a couple of packages from the code.vmware.com Samples page. The VM in the HOL does not appear to have internet access. Anyone know if this is possible?