Automating vSphere: With VMware vCenter Orchestrator

Index

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actions, 53-54

creating, 55

duplicating, 55-56

exporting, 56

importing, 56

performing, 216

adding

clusters to vCenter Server, 192-193

hosts

to clusters, 197-198

to vCenter Server, 190-192

workflow, 198-201

inputs

configuring shared storage on hosts, 194-195

VMware VIX, 143-144

NFS datastore, 204

scripting for shared storage on hosts, 196-197

standalone hosts, 201-202

age, improving processes, 115

Amazing Smoothies, 112

applications, 107-108

customization, 139-140

decommissioning process, 155-156

inconsistencies, 156

management, 156

security, 157

VM sprawl, 156

growing pains, 109

history and tour of, 104

network layouts, 104-106

problems with processes, 114

snapshots

committing, 113

creating, 112-113

systems integration, 108

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