vCenter Compatibility

[cdhunter]

Hi, we are running vCenter 5.0 and want to utilise Orchestrator.  I initally installed Orchestrator 5.5 on our vCenter Server and everything looked great but I wasn't getting any results when running workflows.  I then checked the interoperability matrix and it suggests that with vCenter 5.0 it is only compatible with Orchestrator 5.1.0.

Is this correct? I installed Orchestrator 5.1.0 and the difference between that and 5.5 is incredible!  There are loads of workflows already created for use in vCO 5.5 but none in vCO 5.1.

Is anyone running vCenter 5.0 with Orchestrator 5.5?  Many thanks.

p.s. we are unable to upgrade our vCenter at this moment in time.

[cdecanini_]

There is not such a difference between the number of workflows between 5.1 and 5.5. Most of the additional plug-ins are available as separate downloads.

I suspect that if you see very little amount of workflows it is because the 5.1 packages did not deploy. To fix this in the vCO configuration / troubleshooting tab use the Reinstall the plug-ins when the server starts link and restart the service. This will force the workflows to get redeployed.

[cdhunter]

Thanks for the reply.  I reinstalled the plug-ins but there's still not many workflows compared to v5.5.  All I can see is:

Library

Locking

Display all locks

Locking test

Locking test (x5)

Release all locks

Orchestrator

Tasks

Create recurrent task

Create task

Workflows

Start workflows in a series

Start workflows in parallel

Troubleshooting

Export logs and application settings

Workflow documentation

Get documentation for workflow

Get documentation for workflow category

XML

Samples XML (Address Book)

Append address book stylesheet information

Create address book CSS

Create address book DTD

Create address book XML

Full address book test

Samples XML (Simple)

Create a simple XML document

Find element in document

Modify XML document

Within 5.5 I had workflows I could run such as:  Find all VMs modified in x date, Find all snapshots, etc etc

[cdecanini_]

The vCenter workflows that you are mentioning are in vCO 5.1. If they do not appear in the list it means that your vCenter plug-in does not deploy properly. Make sure you have the last built available on the communities document page and that you forced resintallation of plug-ins + server start.