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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

Load-balancing Orchestrator


In this recipe, we will build a load-balancer and discuss the situation with certificates as well.

Getting ready

Here, we will be using VMware NSX, but the same methods apply to all load-balancers. So, for this recipe you need VMware NSX. If you don't have a license for NSX, check out F5 Networks, who have a trial program, or the Apache load-balancer. Alternatively, you could also use Nginx; see https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2058674 .

The NSX appliance needs to be deployed along with the controllers. If you need some help with that, check out these YouTube videos:

No VXLANs or any fancy configuration is needed.

How to do it...

I split this recipe into several parts for easier reading; execute them in sequence.

Creating a new NSX Edge

If you don't have an NSX Edge yet, let's get one running:

  1. Log in to vCenter and click on Network Security and then on NSX Edges.

  2. Click on the green plus...

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