To Converter Workflows please check this :

VMware vCenter Orchestrator Plug-In Documentation Center

Hope this helped .

Best regards

Your Oscar

Hi,

you have to actually search the inventory for the VM with the given name (be careful, there might be not unique!).

For the you can use VcPlugin.getAllVirtualMachines() with an xpath filter in a scriptable task,

or the Action com.vmware.library.vc.vm.getAllVMsMatchingRegexp from the library.

Also have a look at these resources:

http://www.vmwarelearning.com/orchestrator

Case insensitive search for VM by name (the examples here actually should solve your problem)

cheers,

Joerg

Thanks for your reply.

Actually, I want to call workflow from Java code and pass Input as VM (VC:VirtualMachine) object, i tried with below code,

SdkObject obj = new SdkObject();

obj.setType("VC:VirtualMachine"); 

obj.setId("VCIP/vm-744");

context = new ExecutionContextBuilder().addParam("vm",obj).build();

WorkflowExecution execution = executionService.execute(workflow, context);

but it is pass null to VM input parameter in vCO workflow.

So i thought to pass Vm name as string and within workflow script i will convert that into VC:VirtualMachine object type. but i'm not able to do this.

Can anyone help me resolve this issue or on the workaround?

LuckyT:

The ID of a Virtual Machine actually looks like this through the SOAP api:

dunes://service.dunes.ch/CustomSDKObject?id='vcenter.yourdomain.lab/vm-744'&dunesName='VC:VirtualMachine'

Try using that format on your line that sets the ID... See if that helps.

Thanks.

I'm using the same format, but using through Java:

obj.setType("VC:VirtualMachine"); 

obj.setId("VCIP/vm-744");

Can you suggest?

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Burke - this style of IDs ('dunes://...') is not supported in vCO REST API.

I'm not a JAVA developer so I can't help much more My id example was based on the SOAP API.

Hopefully one of our community members more familiar with Java will be able to further assist you.

Can anyone help on this? I'm not able send SDKObject (VM Name) to vCO from my java code.

LuckyT did you ever find the solution for this one? I have the same problem, but calling via POST

I found this guide to work http://www.vzare.com/?p=3560