To leverage orchestration of workflows and automation of tasks through vRealize Orchestrator in VMware Cloud Director, you register a vRealize Orchestrator instance in the VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal.
Prerequisites
- Deploy and configure a vRealize Orchestrator server instance. For more information, see Installing and Configuring VMware vRealize Orchestrator in the vRealize Orchestrator documentation.
- Configure vRealize Orchestrator to use vSphere as an authentication provider.
- Verify that you enabled the vRO Workflow Execution UI plug-in. See Managing Plug-Ins.
- To secure the communication with the vRealize Orchestrator server instance, import its certificate to VMware Cloud Director. See Managing Certificates.
Procedure
- From the top navigation bar, select Libraries
- From the left panel, select Service Management.
A list of registered
vRealize Orchestrator server appears.
- To register a new vRealize Orchestrator server, click Add.
The
Register vRealize Orchestrator dialog appears.
- Enter the following values.
Option |
Description |
Name |
Name for the registered vRealize Orchestrator instance. |
Description |
Description for the registered vRealize Orchestrator server instance. |
Hostname |
The fully-qualified domain name and server port of the vRealize Orchestrator server. The default HTTPS port value is 443.
Note:
VMware Cloud Director connects to the API interface of
vRealize Orchestrator.
|
Username |
A user account that is member of the vRealize Orchestrator administrators group. |
Password |
The password for the vRealize Orchestrator administrator account. |
Choose vRO vCenter |
Choose one of the following.
- From the drop-down menu, select the vCenter Server instance that is backing the vRealize Orchestrator server instance.
- If there is more than one vCenter Server instance, to automatically add the vCenter Server instance that backs vRealize Orchestrator, click Auto Discover.
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- Click OK to complete the registration.