Chapter 2. Installing vCenter Orchestrator

After reading Chapter 1, “Introducing VMware vCenter Orchestrator,” you should have a good grasp of what vCO is and is capable of, and are likely ready to begin an installation. In this chapter, we build a vCO installation upon which the remainder of the examples in this book are built.

To be more specific, this chapter covers three things:

vCO installation types

You need to make a few different architecture and scale decisions when deploying vCO. This section covers each of the three types of vCO installation.

vCO installation

This section takes the architecture decisions from the preceding section and applies them to an actual installation.

The vCO Client

Finally, you are introduced to the vCO ...

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