Automating vSphere: With VMware vCenter Orchestrator

by Cody Bunch

Unleash the Power of vCenter Orchestrator to Automate Tasks and Improve Efficiency Today, VMware administrators are responsible for far more infrastructure, servers, and services than ever before. To succeed, they must take full advantage of opportunities to automate and orchestrate their vSphere environments. In Automating vSphere with VMware vCenter Orchestrator , three-time vExpert Cody Bunch shows how to utilize VMware vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) 4.2 to achieve far higher levels of operational efficiency and effectiveness. Bunch reveals what vCO can do, walks through each step of installation and configuration, explains how its “moving parts” work together, and thoroughly introduces both plug-ins and workflows. Building on this core knowledge, he presents several start-to-finish case studies showing how to use vCO to address real-world challenges ranging from provisioning to snapshots, cluster management to decommissioning. Whatever your VMware virtualization environment, this book will help you do more with less, save time, eliminate errors, and improve both performance and reliability. Coverage includes Networking/Virtualization vmware.com/go/vmwarepress

312 pages, Paperback

First published March 12, 2012

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a really good intro to using the vCenter Orchestrator feature of vSphere. I would love to see a follow up book that gets into some advanced techniques. Most of the samples were pretty basic. There is a ton of power in this tool and it can be used to orchestrate many things outside of vSphere. I am using it to fuse vSphere and vCD with quite a few other services in IT.