Automating vSphere: With VMware vCenter Orchestrator

Appendix A. Working with VMware Onyx

There will come a time when building out workflows that you find yourself in a position where you are not sure what bits of vCO code you need to write. Or, if JavaScript is not your native scripting language and you’d rather work in PowerCLI, you will need to figure out how to translate from one language to the other, which, itself, can be quite interesting. Thankfully, VMware has a tool that you can add to your workflow-building tool belt to make this simple, and that is Onyx.

In this appendix, we cover the following:

• What is Onyx?

• Installing Onyx

• Configuring Onyx output

• Using Onyx with the VI Client

• Using Onyx with VMware PowerCLI

What Is Onyx?

As touched on in the introduction, Onyx is a wonderful ...