Hi,
I'm building a workflow for a client of mine to provision Windows and Linux based VMs. The client has two main vCenters they will be provisioning to.
As part of the workflow, the user will select a VM template from the vCO inventory tree structure. I then utilize a method (getVimHostForVimObject) to return the vCenter Server (SdkConnection) that the template has been chosen from. This action is then used to obtain a list of resource pools, VM folders and dvs port groups that belong to that vCenter only. This is done to ensure that the user will not mistakenly select a resource from the wrong vCenter Server.
This mechanism works fine in the presentation form of the Orchestrator client. I start the workflow and then select the VM template that I want to clone. On the next presentation step is the option to select the Resource Pool and VM folder. When I select the Resource Pool variable, it lists only the vCenter Server (SdkConnection) of the VM template I selected.
However the mechanism does not work when the workflow is run from the vSphere Web Client. With the VM template selected, I then proceed to choose the resource pool. However it lists the root of the vCO vCenter inventory tree, listing all vCenter Servers. I then did some testing with a test workflow. I set an input parameter of type 'SdkConnection' and ran it from the web client so that I could select the vCenter Server directly. When the vCenter Server was highlighted in the inventory, I could not select it. This told me that the web client was not recognizing the type SdkConnection. I've attached a screen shot to highlight.
There are also no errors written to the log file.
Please help. Is this expected behavior in the web client? Or is there a better way to automatically select the correct vCenter Server resources when a resource from a specific vCenter has been selected?
FYI: Running vCO 5.5.1 with vCenter Server 5.1 running on both vCenter Servers. I've also got a test environment with both vCO 5.5.2 and vCenter 5.5 and the same issues exist.
