To leverage orchestration of workflows and automation of tasks through VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator in VMware Cloud Director, you register a VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator instance in the VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal.

Prerequisites

  • Deploy and configure a VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator server instance. For more information, see Installing and Configuring VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator in the VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator documentation.
  • Configure VMware Aria Automation 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 VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator server instance, import its certificate to VMware Cloud Director. See Managing Certificates.

Procedure

  1. From the top navigation bar, select Libraries
    1. From the left panel, select Service Management.
      A list of registered VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator server appears.
  2. To register a new VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator server, click Add.
    The Register vRealize Orchestrator dialog appears.
  3. Enter the following values.
    Option Description
    Name Name for the registered VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator instance.
    Description Description for the registered VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator server instance.
    Hostname The fully-qualified domain name and server port of the VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator server. The default HTTPS port value is 443.
    Note: VMware Cloud Director connects to the API interface of VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator.
    Username A user account that is member of the VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator administrators group.
    Password The password for the VMware Aria Automation 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 VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator server instance.
    • If there is more than one vCenter Server instance, to automatically add the vCenter Server instance that backs VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator, click Auto Discover.
  4. Click OK to complete the registration.