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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

NSX integration


In this recipe, we take a look at automating NSX with Orchestrator.

Getting ready

You need NSX installed and connected to your vCenter. There are some good YouTube videos that show the essential setup. For more information, refer to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CATcY254pP8 .

You will need the latest version of the NSX plugin (as of writing, version 1.0.4) and to install it in your Orchestrator. You can find it here by logging into www.vmware.com and then selecting NSX and then under Drivers & Tools.

To understand NSX, there is a wonderful Hands-on Labs from VMware that you may like to work through: http://www.vmware.com/products/nsx/nsx-hol.html .

How to do it...

This recipe is broken up into two sections: configuring and an example.

Configuring an endpoint

  1. Run the workflow Library | NSX | Configuration | Create NSX endpoint.

  2. Enter a name for the endpoint.

  3. The user must be defined as an NSX user (you can also use the admin user you defined when installing the NSX appliance...

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