Chapter 3. Configuring vCenter Orchestrator

As you saw in Chapter 2, “Installing vCenter Orchestrator,” vCO will not even let you log in before it is configured. So, configure it we must. There is no shortage of configuration options for vCO, either. The basic configuration we walk through in this chapter leaves you with a working configuration on which we build the remainder of our workflows. Our basic configuration covers the following areas:

• Starting the vCO Web Configuration service

• Changing the default vCO configuration service password

• Configuring networking

• Configuring LDAP

• Database configuration

• Configuring SSL

• Licensing the vCO server

• Plug-in configuration

• Installing vCO as a service

• Backing up the configuration

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