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benlooy
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vRA Orchestrator Workflow - Skip Initial Power On

Hello! *We are using vRA Version: 7.5.0 (Build: 10053500)

We need to deploy blueprints with the VMs powered off. Post provisioning, the machines should be in a powered off state.

We found one way of doing this on another thread:

"You need an addition event subscription with event topic Machine provisioning with the condition "D...

This is what we have done so far:

1. Under property definitions we created a property and group "Nopoweron" with bolean value true.

2. Assigned that property and property group to the machines in the blueprint.

3. Created a event broker subscription:

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(We differed from the solution mentioned above because we are trying to clone the virtual machines in the blueprint, not create them.)

4. We built a workflow, and it consists of a single scriptable item:

     We have one input: "payload" type properties.

     Under Scripting we have:

workflowNextState = payload.get("workflowNextState");

System.log("workflowNextState: " + workflowNextState );

virtualMachineAddOrUpdateProperties = new Properties();

virtualMachineAddOrUpdateProperties.put("workflowNextState", 'BuildComplete');

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The workflow has one output: virtualMachineAddOrUpdateProperties type properties.

5. I referenced the workflow in the event broker subscription.

So far, we have had no luck getting this to work and the workflow does not show that it is getting executed.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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GeiAll
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Hi Benlooy.

If your workflow show no logs, it's most likely something wrong with the conditions.

It should show in the log if it's executed. Try running with only LifeCycle state event to confirm this.

Second, I'm quite sure you must run the EBS workflow as blocking. Or else any parameters will not be updated back to vRA before the execution of the next event. (EG: Triggering Poweron will be run before your EBS workflow is finished.)

Futher more try to run with virtualMachineEvent instead of virtualMachineAddOrUpdateProperties. (virtualMachineAddOrUpdateProperties seems to change behaviour between different versions of vRA. I had it working in 7.0 and 7.1, 7.3 does not updates the properites between the different events. Running 7.6 now, not actually tested it here).

Add an output property to your workflow:

virtualMachineEvent (String)

then set it to:

virtualMachineEvent = "BuildSuccess"

This is working in 7.3 atleast, however it will then skip any EBS workflows using VMPSMasterWorkflow32.MachineProvisioned or VMPSMasterWorkflow32.VMPSMasterWorkflow32.MachineActivated

If you want to see more details, you can have a look at my notes here:

http://www.threestar.no/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=vrealize:eventbroker:properties

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Windspirit
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I cant get that to work in 7.6. It works for the Build but not for the clone workflow. I tried with going to different stages or events and its not working.

BTW: I attached a map of all the stages and events as far as I documented them.

I have a massive problem. my IaaS isnt powering on VMs anymore after upgrading. VMware tells me they will do a HF in like 2 month...until then I cant build anything. So skipping powerOn and then using vRO to power would work for me.

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