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Automating vSphere with VMware vCenter Orchestrator (VMware Press Technology): With VMware VCenter Orchestrator (Vmware Press) 1st Edition

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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

Understanding how vCO fits into your environment and identifying your best opportunities to use it
Choosing the right installation scenario and efficiently managing the vCO installation process
Configuring vCO: services, passwords, networking, LDAP, databases, SSL, licensing, plug-ins, backup, and more
Interacting with vCO through actions, packages, plug-ins, web views, resources, and workflows
Automating manual tasks with vCO’s extensive workflow library
Creating sophisticated workflows with drag-and-drop components and JavaScript
Using plug-ins to control infrastructure within and around your vSphere environment
Bringing consistency to VM provisioning, overcoming “VM sprawl” and resource contention, and simplifying support
Optimizing VM lifecycle management, all the way through decommissioning
Automating all snapshot monitoring processes and components
Exporting logs, finding/deleting orphaned files, and performing other day-to-day tasks
Efficiently conducting mass VM migrations
Quickly adding vCenter hosts and clusters, configuring shared storage, and adding hosts to new clusters
Using vCO and third-party plug-ins to gain “private cloud” benefits and flexibility

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0321799917
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978-0321799913
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1st
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Publication date

March 2, 2012
Language

English
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7 x 0.66 x 9 inches
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Cody Bunch is a private cloud architect hailing from the hill country just outside San Antonio, Texas. Cody was recognized as a VMware vExpert in 2009, 2010, and 2011 and has been involved in the VMware community since late 2007. Cody has also spoken on virtualization and automation at VMworld 2011 and the Virtualization Congress 2009. Cody shares his nuts-and-bolts operations and automation guidance on his website ProfessionalVMware.com.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vmware Press; 1st edition (March 2, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 292 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0321799917
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0321799913
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.66 x 9 inches

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Pierre B. Morel

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Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2018

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Steven

Great Introduction to VMware vCenter Orchestrator

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2012

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While the book is well written and contains a wealth of information, I was left slightly disappointed as the book was more of an introduction to using VMware vCenter Orchestrator instead of how to automate IT processes involving vSphere using VMware vCenter Orchestrator. As with most of the existing documentation that is available online, the book suggests possible uses and ways that you could extend built-in workflows to accomplish simple day to day processes, but does not go into concepts such as long running workflows to handle VM lifecycles, etc. Information that I was hoping to see would be related to how to integrate third party applications into your vCenter Orchestrator installation (such as SOAP/REST APIs), integration of external information such as external CMDB systems or SQL databases, information on creation of customized Web Views, and other complex workflows. Additionally, the book barely touches on the use of Javascript and the vSphere API which are core to the automation of complex tasks and business processes.

If you are new to VMware vCenter Orchestrator, then I highly recommend this book. However, if you already are using VMware vCenter Orchestrator and are looking to broaden your skills and knowledge, I would pass on this title.

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marcuscassius

Disappointing , to say the least

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2013

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If you are buying this, you have a vCO environment. You are an admin or an orchestrator. You know what XML is and how packages are put together. You can figure out , in very short order, what the functions are in a software package. What you need is a way to use it. Charging $20 for a book which describes what the drop downs are and where SSL certificates are installed is insulting. While I don't speak for everyone in the industry, I would say that most of us are fairly intelligent. We can figure out how the software is installed without a manual. Instead; how about building a complex workflow, or intricate approaches to actual business cases? I thought that need would be obvious. VMWare can tell you how to install certs when you order the software. I think this book capitalizes on peoples ignorance to give them something that they could get from Google. If this sounds harsh, consider that this was NOT presented as an addendum to the install or a beginners guide. When I read reviews, I want peoples true evaluations, not sugar coated niceties or "I'm sorry but....". I hope this stops people in the industry from wasting their money.
If you are a beginner.........study before you spend.

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saiello

Automating vSphere with VMware vCenter Orchestrator - Is a good introduction

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2013

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I picked up Automating vSphere with VMware vCenter Orchestrator with the hopes that I would give me a deep dive into vCenter Orchestrator, while it didn't do that it gave me a good start. I would have liked more examples around the deployment process, and using scripts inside the virtual machines.

Over all good book if you're just starting out with VMware vCenter Orchestrator

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Dave

Worst VMware Press Book Ever!

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2014

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Cutesy is an understatement for this book. Oh, if Amazon would only allow negative #s. This book cannot even be considered a beginners book. Nothing about inputs and outputs to any significant degree. Trivial examples much like a math professor would do -- here is the theorom to prove, and not to bother you with the details, the answer is .... The points may be obivious to the author but maybe not to everyone else. Who cares about Javascript code, we can learn that as needed. Give some real world examples and leave off the cutesy crap, technical people don't want that. I've seen this book list for $79 on Amazon and thought when I saw it for $29 it would probably be worth it. Not one color picture or screenshot in the entire book. The vCO client uses color coding in code and schema's in an excellent manner. Why would anyone spend a third of the book on how to install and configure vCO when VMware has this covered in great detail. What a waste. I won't be buying another VMware Press book without first skimming it first hand, there is more free info on the net of much higher quality. And just for perspective, I have more than 35 years in the computer industry as a developer/programmer, DBA, sys admin, and architect, including multiple VMware, Microsoft, and CompTIA cert's.

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M. Overy

a good guide for anyone starting with vCO

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 25, 2015

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Finally get round to writing this review.

Not a definitive guide but shows what can be done with vCO..

Examples are nice and realistic.

LeftLion

Excellent read from a truly dedicated author

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 14, 2012

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I found this colourful on my Kindle, the book is far from dry and gives the reader some great insights in to real world challenges and solutions surrounding the automation side of vmware.

Cody covers pretty-much all angles from a high-level design aspect and provides enough examples to get your mind cranking away at ideas and design considerations for implementing vCO.

Excellent read, I highly recommend it.