VM Deployment using VMware Orchestrator

[rekhajain1705]

Hi,

Can you pls help me with VM Deployment using VMware Orchestration?

Thanks

Rekha

[Burke- · Accepted solution]

Hello Rekha, welcome to vCO Take a look at my blog to get an idea of how to use vCO. Christophe & I (and a few guests) have posted quite a few tutorials around doing things with Orchestrator. Of particular interest to the subject of this thread would probably be this three part series: 

Create a simple vCO self service VM Provisioning Portal - Part 1

Create a simple vCO self service VM Provisioning Portal - Part 2

Create a Simple vCO Self Service VM Provisioning Portal - Part 3

[Techstarts]

If you really wish to know the product, please refer this video training.

http://vmwarelearning.com/orchestrator/

It will provide you basic information over which it becomes very easy to build any workflow.

Thanks,

Preetam

vZare.com

[rekhajain1705]

Thanks Preetam, I have already gone thru this.

[rekhajain1705]

Thanks Burke, will go thru it and revert back in case of queries. Just wanted to know if we have technical support for Orchestrator.

[mcfadyenj]

you will probably get faster support in these forums. I haven't had huge personal success with VMWare support re vCO.

A number of the folks in here seem to be on the vco dev teams, not that I work or have any association to them its just a personal observation I have made over time.

[rekhajain1705]

Hi,

I followed the link provided by you, and was able to automate VM provisioning. However our requirement is slightly different. I have used Clone virtual machine, no customization action element in my work flow. Instead of mentioning host, I have mentioned a cluster element. Please find attached the script output of the action item. However when I run the workflow, it throws an error "unable to create virtual machine. Relocate spec: type error. Cannot read property "Parent" from undefined. (Dynamic Script Module Name get relocate spec #8".

I am not good at Java script. Hence pls advice how can I include cluster element rather than host.

Awaiting response. Thank You.

[Burke-]

This error is because you changed the code to pass a ClusterComputeResource object to the getRelocateSpec object which is NOT a valid input..

The only valid inputs to the getRelocateSpec action are:

datastore (VC:Datastore), disk (Array/Any), host (VC:HostSystem), pool (VC:ResourcePool), transform (VC:VirtualMachineRelocateTransformation)

Look at the getRelocateSpec action and try to understand the code inside of it. If that action doesn't fit your needs then you either:

1) Prepare proper inputs BEFORE calling this library action

2) Duplicate the action, customize it to meet your needs then use this custom version from your workflows

The preferred/recommended approach is number 1.

[rekhajain1705]

Thanks Burke. Will try the option no. 1

[rekhajain1705]

Hi,

I have a requirement to input IP, SNM, Gateway to a NIC in a VM. When I select vc:vmnetwork(something like this), its takng the vlan id. When I browsed thru the inbuilt workflow "create sample VM", the parameter to get nic or ip is mentioned as number and when I run the workflow, its just taking the first 2 octects of an IP address. How do I incorporate so the workflow asks for the number of NICs and attaches the IP, SNM and GW to that NIC?

Thanks

Reks.

[tschoergez]

Reks, have a look at the workflows in Library/vCenter/Virtual Machine/Clone.

They contatin the logic to ask input parameters based on the number of network cards, you can use them as template for your own work.

Cheers,

Joerg

[rekhajain1705]

Thanks Joerg. That helped.