This video shows another example how powerful vCenter Orchestrator really is:
Auto-Create a new Backup Job, whenever a new vApp is deployed in vCloud Director
vCloud Director Backup driven by vCenter Orchestrator from Joerg Lew on Vimeo.
For that I used the AMQP-Plugin, so that the “Create VM“-Event in vCD triggers the Generate Backup Job-Workflow. This workflow calls out to a Powershell-Script to create a new Backup Job using the vendor’s snapin. I used Veeam Backup&Recovery, because they provide a lot of helpful Cmdlets to automate their backup solution.
What to learn?
- For vCloud Administrators: vCO allows you to integrate vCD with the rest of your IT-world
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For Backup Vendors: Provide a Plugin for vCO (or at least a basic API), and your customer can integrate your backup product with the rest of their IT-world.
(Then you don’t even have to develop the integration for vCloud Director from scratch 😉 ) - For every VMware User: Even without vCloud Director you can use vCO for a lot of cool stuff to integrate your IT-world (what about to create a new Backup Job whenever anybody deploys a Template in vCenter…?)
- For all: Be creative! Everything is possible with vCO!
References (in case I kicked your mind :mrgreen:)
- http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/05/backup-design-for-vcloud-director-tenant-vapps-whitepaper.html
- http://forums.veeam.com/viewforum.php?f=26
- http://blogs.vmware.com/orchestrator/2011/09/this-month-started-with-showing-a-great-example-of-vco-providing-process-automation-using-active-directory-email-and-webvie.html
- http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-18002
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXg2GmPGRW0
- http://www.vcoportal.de/2012/08/adventures-with-the-vco-amqp-plugin/