What this book covers

The best approach towards this book is to start at the beginning and work your way towards the end. I also recommend that you try out each example, as this will not only increase your skill, but also your understanding.

Chapter 1, Architectural Overview, covers all the questions regarding the sizing, connection ability, and plug-ins of Orchestrator.

Chapter 2, Deploying and Configuring the Orchestrator Appliance, shows you how to install and configure the vRO Appliance.

Chapter 3, Integrating Orchestrator with vSphere, deals with connecting and using Orchestrator with vSphere Web Client.

Chapter 4, Working with Workflows, is an introduction to how to start and schedule a workflow as well as deal with the outcomes.

Chapter 5, Combining and Modifying Workflows, shows you how to build your own workflows by using the existing ones from the huge library that is a part of the product.

Chapter 6, Advanced vRO Scripting with JavaScript, will go through ways to improve your scripts by using JavaScript as well as arrays and actions.

Chapter 7, Improving Workflows with Presentation, shows you how to make workflows not only more user-friendly, but also less prone to error entries.

Chapter 8, Errors, Logs, and Debug Mode, introduces you to the usage of logs and error handling. We also discuss the Orchestrator debug mode.

Chapter 9, Packing It All Up, looks into the creation, export, and import of packages and workflows.