vCenter Orchestrator was an objective in the VDCA410 exam that qualified for the VCAP4-DCA certification, disappeared in the VDCA510 exam and returned in the VDCA550 exam
Skills and abilities
- Configure and manage vCenter Orchestrator
- Add Orchestrator to vCenter
- Create basic vCenter management workflows
- Troubleshoot existing workflows
- Import/export packages
Tools:
- vCenter Orchestrator v5.5 Developers Guide
- vCenter Orchestrator v5.5 Install and Configuration Guide
- vCenter Orchestrator v5.5 Using the Client Guide
- VMware vCO page
Configure and manage vCenter Orchestrator
First of all, what is vCenter Orchestrator (vCO from now on)? According to the documentation, vCO is a development- and process-automation platform that provides a library of extensible workflows to allow you to create and run automated, configurable processes to manage the VMware vSphere infrastructure as well as other VMware and third-party technologies. The Key word in this definition is the word “process-automation”.
The architecture of vCO