Need documentation for VRA/VRO 7.0 Custom Resource/Dynamic Types features

[ACPeterson]

Hi,

I'm new to Vrealize so if this is the wrong place to post I appologize.

I've been searching for a tutorial or examples for creating Custom Resources/Dynamic Types in VRA 7.0.

I've currently created a namespace, type and find workflows in VRO but don't see the inventory items returned by the Find All workflow. At this point I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Any help finding comprehensive documentation of these features would be really helpful.

Thanks,

-Tony

[kallischlauch]

there's a couple of documents to use it together if you have a Resthost target, but couldn't find anything without that

the following link also has link to tutorial

Dynamic Types plug-in generator package

I'm currently checking on using orchestrator plugin SDK. the 5.5 version comes with a sample plugin in form of a solar system. Playing with that. just to let you know that option is there as well if you are java developer and familiar with eclipse IDE, tools and SKDs

[ACPeterson]

Thanks for getting back to me.

We're running VRO 7.0 and the link seems to be for 5.5 but beyond that is there an explanation of how the pieces fit together?

It seems like you need:

External System:

Rest APIs

VRO:

A Namespace for the Dynamic Type

A Dynamic Type

Finder workflows bound to the Dynamic Type that call the Rest API

A workflow to provision the Dynamic Type

A workflow to decommission the Dynamic Type

VRA:

A Custom Resource bound to the Dynamic Type

A XaaS blueprint to invoke the VRO provisioning workflow.

A Resource Action to bind the VRO Dynamic Type decommissioning workflow to the Custom Resource

Entitlements are set up for the XaaS blueprint and the Resource Action

Once all of these are in place and working then successfully provisioning through a VRA Catalog request will result in the appearance of a Dynamic Types category on the VRA Items tab.

Selecting the Dynamic Types category will display a category for the VRA Custom Resource.

Selecting the Custom Resource category will display the item provisioned by the Catalog request.

Selecting the item will cause the Actions dropdown to be populated with any Resource Actions bound to the Custom Resource type.

Does that sound about right?

-Tony