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Automating vSphere: With VMware vCenter Orchestrator
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Automating vSphere: With VMware vCenter Orchestrator

by Cody Bunch
March 2012
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
5h 26m
English
VMware Press
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Chapter 4. Identifying the Moving Parts

In this chapter, we investigate the various moving parts of a vCO installation. We do this by identifying each of the moving parts that make up our interactions with vCO. These parts include the following:

Actions

Packages

Plug-ins

Web views

Resources

Workflows

A few object types have been deprecated in this release of vCO (4.2), as follows:

• Authorizations

• OGNL expressions

Actions

After pulling back the drapes, we discover the first moving part within vCO: actions. In vCO, actions are objects that perform work. Although that might seem so simple it’s stupid, let’s consider it for a moment. vCO actions are JavaScript functions that take multiple inputs and produce a singular output. Because ...

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