VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator

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  • 1.  VMware Orchestrator

    Posted Mar 05, 2012 03:18 PM

    Hi, I have requirment to automate some of the work using vmware solution for the virtual machine configuration changes. I have done some survey and found that using vmware vcenter orchestrator we can achieve this.

    I have good knowledge working on the vmware solutions, but am very new to orchestrator.

    Am looking for the solution, where I need to change the vNIC for the virtual machine for a large number of servers in a automated way. Need help which can perform this action using vmware orchestrator:

    1. Power off VM

    2. Add the VMXNET3 NIC to the virtual server

    3. Power On VM

    4. IP / VLAN Transfer

    5. Remove the Old vNIC from the VM

    6. check for the VMware Tools

    Request you all to provide your inputs.

    Thanks.



  • 2.  RE: VMware Orchestrator

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 05, 2012 03:59 PM

    Hi!

    All that things should be possible with vCO. For stopping and starting VMs you can find Workflows in the library, unfortunately not for the device tasks for the VM. Onyx might help here to get quick results.

    For the in-Guest operations you can use VIX API or the vSphere 5 GuestOperations (see discussions:

    http://communities.vmware.com/message/1874210

    http://www.doublecloud.org/2012/03/run-kill-and-list-programs-in-guest-operating-system-on-vmware/ (for vijava toolkit, but should be comparable for vCO)

    )

    Sad to say, but: For this use-case there might be some more ready-to-use examples for PowerCLI out there, for instance here:

    http://blog.virtualyoungtech.com/?p=108

    Feel free to use the Powershell-Plugin for vCO to call this from your workflows :smileylaugh:...

    Cheers,

    Joerg