Deploying the Orchestrator appliance

We will now deploy the Orchestrator appliance based on Linux. If you are using the vRA integrated Orchestrator, see the introduction to Chapter 13, Working with vRealize Automation.

Getting ready

We can deploy the Orchestrator appliance on either a vSphere environment or on a VMware workstation (or Fusion if you are a MAC user).

Have a quick look at the requirements in the introduction of this chapter.

How to do it...

In this recipe, we will learn how to download and deploy Orchestrator. We will configure it in a later recipe.

Download

  1. Navigate to http://vmware.com and select Downloads.
  2. Click on Download Product next to VMware vSphere or vRealize Automation.
  3. Look for VMware vRealize Orchestrator Appliance 7.1 and click ...

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