Configure the Automation Orchestrator Plug-in for the vSphere Web Client

To use the Automation Orchestrator plug-in for the vSphere Web Client, you must register Automation Orchestrator as an extension of vCenter.

After you register your Automation Orchestrator server with vCenter Single Sign-On and configure it to work with vCenter, you must register Automation Orchestrator as an extension of vCenter.

Prerequisites

Verify that SSH access is enabled for the Automation Orchestrator Appliance. See Activate or Deactivate SSH Access to the Automation Orchestrator Appliance.
You must register Automation Orchestrator with vSphere authentication to the same Platform Services Controller that your managed vCenter instance authenticates with.
Copy the vco-plugin.zip to the Automation Orchestrator Appliance:
1. Download the vco-plugin.zip file from the VMware Technology Network.
2. Open an SSH client.
  Note: For Linux or MacOS environments, you can use the Terminal command-line interface. For Windows environments, you can use the PuTTY client.
3. To copy the vco-plugin.zip file, run the secure copy command.
```
For Linux/MacOS: scp ~/<zip_download_dir>/vco-plugin.zip root@<orchestrator_FQDN_or_IP>:/data/vco/usr/lib/vco/downloads/vco-plugin.zip
```
```
For Windows: pscp C:\<zip_download_dir>\vco-plugin.zip root@<orchestrator_FQDN_or_IP>:/data/vco/usr/lib/vco/downloads/vco-plugin.zip
```

Procedure

Log in to the Automation Orchestrator Client.
Navigate to Library > Workflows.
Search for the Register vCenter Orchestrator as a vCenter Server extension workflow, and click Run.
Select the vCenter instance to register Automation Orchestrator with.
Enter https://your_orchestrator_FQDN or the service URL of the load balancer that redirects the requests to the Automation Orchestrator server nodes.
Click Run.