vRealize Orchestrator Appliance Components

The vRealize Orchestrator Appliance is a Photon-based virtual appliance running in containers.

The vRealize Orchestrator Appliance includes the following components:

• An infrastructure level Kubernetes layer.
• A preconfigured PostgreSQL database.
• The core vRealize Orchestrator services: the server service, Control Center service, and orchestration UI service.

The default vRealize Orchestrator Appliance database configuration is production ready.

Note: To use the vRealize Orchestrator Appliance in a production environment, you must configure the vRealize Orchestrator server to authenticate through vRealize Automation or vSphere.See Configuring a Standalone vRealize Orchestrator Server.