Description:Unleash the Power of vCenter Orchestrator to Automate Tasks and Improve Efficiency Today, VMware administrators are responsible for far more infrastructure, servers, and services than ever before. To succeed, they must take full advantage of opportunities to automate and orchestrate their vSphere environments. In "Automating vSphere with VMware vCenter Orchestrator", three-time vExpert Cody Bunch shows how to utilize VMware vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) 4.2 to achieve far higher levels of operational efficiency and effectiveness. Bunch reveals what vCO can do, walks through each step of installation and configuration, explains how its "moving parts" work together, and thoroughly introduces both plug-ins and workflows. Building on this core knowledge, he presents several start-to-finish case studies showing how to use vCO to address real-world challenges ranging from provisioning to snapshots, cluster management to decommissioning. Whatever your VMware virtualization environment, this book will help you do more with less, save time, eliminate errors, and improve both performance and reliability. Coverage includesUnderstanding how vCO fits into your environment and identifying your best opportunities to use itChoosing the right installation scenario and efficiently managing the vCO installation processConfiguring vCO: services, passwords, networking, LDAP, databases, SSL, licensing, plug-ins, backup, and moreInteracting with vCO through actions, packages, plug-ins, web views, resources, and workflowsAutomating manual tasks with vCO's extensive workflow libraryCreating sophisticated workflows with drag-and-drop components and JavaScriptUsing plug-ins to control infrastructure within and around your vSphere environmentBringing consistency to VM provisioning, overcoming "VM sprawl" and resource contention, and simplifying supportOptimizing VM lifecycle management, all the way through decommissioningAutomating all snapshot monitoring processes and componentsExporting logs, finding/deleting orphaned files, and performing other day-to-day tasksEfficiently conducting mass VM migrationsQuickly adding vCenter hosts and clusters, configuring shared storage, and adding hosts to new clustersUsing vCO and third-party plug-ins to gain "private cloud" benefits and flexibility Networking/Virtualization vmware.com/go/vmwarepressWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Automating vSphere with VMware vCenter Orchestrator (VMware Press Technology). To get started finding Automating vSphere with VMware vCenter Orchestrator (VMware Press Technology), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Automating vSphere with VMware vCenter Orchestrator (VMware Press Technology)
Description: Unleash the Power of vCenter Orchestrator to Automate Tasks and Improve Efficiency Today, VMware administrators are responsible for far more infrastructure, servers, and services than ever before. To succeed, they must take full advantage of opportunities to automate and orchestrate their vSphere environments. In "Automating vSphere with VMware vCenter Orchestrator", three-time vExpert Cody Bunch shows how to utilize VMware vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) 4.2 to achieve far higher levels of operational efficiency and effectiveness. Bunch reveals what vCO can do, walks through each step of installation and configuration, explains how its "moving parts" work together, and thoroughly introduces both plug-ins and workflows. Building on this core knowledge, he presents several start-to-finish case studies showing how to use vCO to address real-world challenges ranging from provisioning to snapshots, cluster management to decommissioning. Whatever your VMware virtualization environment, this book will help you do more with less, save time, eliminate errors, and improve both performance and reliability. Coverage includesUnderstanding how vCO fits into your environment and identifying your best opportunities to use itChoosing the right installation scenario and efficiently managing the vCO installation processConfiguring vCO: services, passwords, networking, LDAP, databases, SSL, licensing, plug-ins, backup, and moreInteracting with vCO through actions, packages, plug-ins, web views, resources, and workflowsAutomating manual tasks with vCO's extensive workflow libraryCreating sophisticated workflows with drag-and-drop components and JavaScriptUsing plug-ins to control infrastructure within and around your vSphere environmentBringing consistency to VM provisioning, overcoming "VM sprawl" and resource contention, and simplifying supportOptimizing VM lifecycle management, all the way through decommissioningAutomating all snapshot monitoring processes and componentsExporting logs, finding/deleting orphaned files, and performing other day-to-day tasksEfficiently conducting mass VM migrationsQuickly adding vCenter hosts and clusters, configuring shared storage, and adding hosts to new clustersUsing vCO and third-party plug-ins to gain "private cloud" benefits and flexibility Networking/Virtualization vmware.com/go/vmwarepressWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Automating vSphere with VMware vCenter Orchestrator (VMware Press Technology). To get started finding Automating vSphere with VMware vCenter Orchestrator (VMware Press Technology), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.