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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook. - Second Edition

You're reading from  VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook. - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462787
Pages 556 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Daniel Langenhan Daniel Langenhan
Profile icon Daniel Langenhan

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Installing and Configuring Orchestrator 2. Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration 3. Distributed Design 4. Programming Skills 5. Visual Programming 6. Advanced Programming 7. Interacting with Orchestrator 8. Better Workflows and Optimized Working 9. Essential Plugins 10. Built-in Plugins 11. Additional Plugins 12. Working with vSphere 13. Working with vRealize Automation

Building an Orchestrator cluster


In this recipe, we are building an Orchestrator cluster and configuring it for HA. Load-balancing is discussed in a separate recipe in this chapter.

Getting ready

The prerequisites for a cluster are not that hard, but they are important:

  • Shared DB: Please have a look at the recipe Configuring an external database in Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring Orchestrator. Also, check that you have set the required extras as stated in the There's more... section of the recipe Configuring an external database. This is especially important if you are using an MS SQL DB. Also note that if you're serious about HA, you may want to use a DB cluster.

  • You need two Orchestrator installations. It's best to use fresh ones, each with fixed IPs.

  • Make sure NTP is configured and the time is synced.

  • You should be familiar with the content of the recipe Important Orchestrator settings in Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring Orchestrator, as well as with the recipe Configuring the Orchestrator...

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