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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook Kindle Edition

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Master the configuration, programming, and interaction of plugins with Orchestrator to efficiently automate your VMware infrastructure

About This Book

Program with Orchestrator to automate and synchronize your infrastructure
Integrate the base plug-ins into your workflows
Packed with over 100 example workflows, packaged for download and reuse

Who This Book Is For

If you are a VMware administrator who is interested in automating your infrastructure, this book is for you. An understanding of basic programming concepts is advised. No previous knowledge of Orchestrator is required, although some previous knowledge of it will allow you to get started more easily.

What You Will Learn

Install, configure, and optimize Orchestrator installations (Windows, Appliance as well as vRA integrated)
Explore all the visual programming elements without the need for additional infrastructure
Work with plugins such as SSH, mail, SQL, PowerShell, AD, SOAP, SNMP, AMQP, and REST
Discover how to create VMware automation
Get to grips with user management, synchronization, and packaging applications
Understand policies and resources
Work more efficiently with distributed Orchestrator environments

In Detail

Through this practical guide, you will gain an understanding of VMware vRealize Orchestrator and its role in the vSphere architecture and automation. You will learn about Orchestrator clusters as well as vRealize Automation integration. A full introduction to using the visual programming tools without needing any additional infrastructure is aimed at beginners with limited resources. This is followed by an extensive look at how to integrate the base plugins into your workflows, such as e-mail, AMQP, SNMP, and so on. We will also look at how to use the Orchestrator API to trigger workflows from other programs.

Through this book you will be able to get the most out of your Orchestrator installation, and develop complex workflows and create your own highly integrated automations of vCenter, vCloud, and vRealize environments.

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February 27, 2015
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Hi all,

PLEASE NOTE:
The Second Editon of this book has been released. See vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook second edition.Please don't forget to get the Example Package that comes with the book. In the Preface you will find a section how to access it.

If you are a total beginner, then I might like to point you to the vRealize Orchestator Essential book.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00U64KRMG
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Packt Publishing (February 27, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 27, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 28985 KB
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 384 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #2,763,146 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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Daniel is a Virtualisation expert with formidable skills in Architecture, Design and Implementation for large multi-tier systems. His experience and knowledge of process management, Enterprise level storage , Linux and Windows Operation systems has made him and his business a highly sought after international consultancy in the Asia Pacific and European regions for multinational clientele in the areas of Finance, Communication, Education and Government. Daniel has been working with VMware products since 2002 and is directly associated with VMWare since 2008. His proven track record of successful integration of Virtualisation into different business areas while minimising cost and maximizing reliability and effectiveness of the solution for his clients.

Daniels expertise and practical approach to VMWare has resulted in the publication of the several books.

One of his highly respected and sought after skills is to provide an interface between different tiers of cooperate environments as well as being able to transfer complex concepts.

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T. Vos

Great instructional book

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2017

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Great instructional book, easy to follow. I do wish the book would cover more in-depth complex topics such as policy writing.

Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2016

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Its pretty good for basic stuff, was hoping that there would be more depth and found it lacking.

Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2015

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Don't like the way this book is structured. Makes for difficult reading.

Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2015

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Excellent. Much better than the VMware course.

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JimM

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2015

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Written to be understood.

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Andrea

A must if you want or need to learn how use vRealize Orchestrator

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2015

Orchestration in VMware environments is something still not so well explored and explained.
Historically there was only vCenter Orchestrator from one side (if you are looking something at high level) and scripting from the other (if you know PowerShell or other scripting languages). Now for the first part there is vRealize Automation, but still the Orchestrator part could be necessary (for example to use vRealize Automation with VMware NSX).
The book “VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook” has the ambition purpose to explain how to master the configuration, programming, and interaction of plugins with Orchestrator to efficiently automate your VMware infrastructure.
The preface is really well done with a useful paragraph on how reading this book in the right way and a simple image that explain how much important is the Orchestrator in all the automation solutions of VMware (and also 3rd part solutions).
This book include only few chapters:
Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring Orchestrator, shows in a simple way how to install, configure, and access the various Orchestrator installation types. Well done (although there are already good online resource that covers this aspects).
Chapter 2, Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration, dives into more specialized setups, such as clusters, and how to tune the Orchestrator appliance. This is usually more complex than the installation part and not so well covered by on-line resources. In this book is well explained.
Chapter 3, Visual Programming, introduces and dives into the visual programming of Orchestrator. A really good overview on how powerful is Orchestrator, understandably also by people that have never see or use it. Probably the best part of the book.
Chapter 4, Working with Plugins, showcases how to use the different plugins of Orchestrator with detailed examples. This part become more technical and deep, but the examples (really good and well done) help a lot.
Chapter 5, Basic Orchestrator Operations, teaches you how to operate Orchestrator, working with user management, packages, and more.
Chapter 6, Advanced Operations, dives into more advanced operations such as language packs, resources, and policies.
Chapter 7, Working with VMware Infrastructure, teaches you how to automate the vSphere infrastructure as well as use Orchestrator workflows in vRealize Orchestrator. This part will apply all what you have learn on the basics of Orchestrator to a VMware environment, again with several useful examples.
So finally a book that maintain the promise of the title and the purpose of it. In little less than 400 good pages a must if you plan to use vRealize Orchestrator or tools that require it.

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Vitor Choi

A very good book for the anyone who needs to get things done.

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2015

The second best thing to have after hands on experience is someone else's experience distilled in a book. As with any cookbook, is focuses is on how to do stuff rather than why, which is great when you're the guy who need to get things done. This book covers a wide range of IT automation scenarios with easy to understand examples.

Oddly, in the Kindle version I had problems configuring the font size. When every other ebook looks nice on my Kindle, this one has small fonts. Never had this kind of issue with any other ebook, and that's the only reason for giving it four stars.

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Jason Gaudreau

Five Starts - Great book to have in your toolkit

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2015

The VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook is a great read for people that want to automate routine task in their vSphere environment. This book not only covers how to use vRO, but also goes into integrating it with vRA to have an extensive automation solution. The book jumps right into basic workflows and workflow constructs in Chapter 3, I found the examples provided in the book were very clear and intuitive, and I was able to run them in my lab environment and learn how to create my own orchestrations.In Chapter 4, there are some great samples of working with SQL plugins that I found very helpful, especially using a SQL query and sending the results to a CSV file. vRealize Orchestrator is an often overlooked tool because it can be viewed as complex, this breaks it down in simple terms and really makes vRO approachable.

If you are interested in automating routine tasks in the datacenter, this is a great book to have on your desk.

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