Chapter 12. Working with vSphere
This chapter is dedicated to working with vSphere—or, to put it bluntly, the vCenter itself. We will be looking at the following recipes:
- Working with the vCenter API (to change a VM's HA settings)
- Standard vSwitch and Distributed Switch ports
- Getting started with vAPI
- Custom Attributes and Tags (vAPI)
- Executing a program inside a VM
- An approval process for VM provisioning
Introduction
Here we will have a look into the vSphere plugin and what we can do with it.
vSphere automation
The interaction between Orchestrator and vCenter is done using the vCenter API. Let's have a closer look at the interaction, and how it works, in more detail.
A user starts an Orchestrator workflow (1) either in an interactive way through the vSphere ...
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