Links in a place
Official vCenter Orchestrator Documentation
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Get trained!
VMware vCenter Orchestrator: Develop Workflows
The course is designed for people new to vCO, it starts with Install & Config, important Orchestrator Basics and the Workflow Development Methodology. After that the “real Orchestration-Power” is touched (at least a part of it, limited to the 3-day timeframe 🙂 ) by starting to integrate vCO with external systems.
Besides the theoretical part there is a lot of lab time (50-70%), with realistic tasks & workflows taken from real admin-life. The packaging chapter at the end allows you to export your work from the labs and take it home.
More details here: http://www.vcoportal.de/2011/09/new-training-available-vmware-vcenter-orchestrator-develop-workflows/
http://mylearn.vmware.com/contact.cfm?ui=www_edu
Orchestrator Plugins
Released Plugins:
http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcenter-orchestrator/plugins.html
Documentation:
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vco_plugins_pubs.html
Experimental Plugins:
http://labs.vmware.com/flings/vix-vco
http://labs.vmware.com/flings/perspectives-plug-in-for-vcenter-orchestrator
http://labs.vmware.com/flings/cim-plugin
VMTN Orchestrator Communities
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VMware Communities – vCenter Orchestrator (The “End-User” section)
http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/server/vcenter/orchestrator -
VMware Communities – Plugin Section
http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/server/vcenter/orchestrator/plugins -
VMware Communities – Developer Section
http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/forums/orchestrator
vSphere API
http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/
API Reference-Documentation: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk41pubs/ApiReference/index.html
(also included in the SDK-Download Package for faster and offline access)
Blogs
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Official VMware vCenter Orchestrator Blog
http://blogs.vmware.com/orchestrator/
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vcoteam
The inofficial blog of the vCO documentation team at VMware
http://www.vcoteam.info -
Mighty Virtualization
Blog of Andreas Diemer and Christian Johanssen, with lots of well documented examples.
http://mighty-virtualization.blogspot.com/ -
professionalvmware
Blog of Cody Bunch, Author of the upcoming Orchestrator book
http://professionalvmware.com/vcenter-orchestrator/
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virtuallyghetto
Not focused on vCO, but it contains a real bunch of vSphere API related stuff and examples
http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/
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vmwareadmins
Blog wirtten by Eric Sarakaitis with examples and use cases for vCO.
http://www.vmwareadmins.com -
doublecloud
Steve Jin’s Blog about all SDK/API stuff. The mastermind behind the VI JAVA API ( http://vijava.sourceforge.net/)
http://www.doublecloud.org/
Videos
Video collection on vcoteam.info: http://www.vcoteam.info/videos.html
My vCO videos on vimeo: http://vimeo.com/tag:vcoportal
Lots of interesting videos for VMware developer, not only about Orchestrator
http://vimeo.com/heyitspablo
vmwaretv on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/vmwaretv
Presentations
Workflow Development Best Practices – Session @vmworld 2011 Las Vegas
http://www.vcoportal.de/2011/10/workflow-development-best-practices/
(quite old in IT-measuring, but still valid mostly): Orchestrator APIs
http://www.slideshare.net/heyitspablo/vcenter-orchestrator-apis