Users Guide

Overview

The Dell Active System Manager integration for vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), formerly known as vCenter Orchestrator (vCO),

enables key automation functions, which can be embedded into vRealize Orchestrator workflow. The workflow helps in provisioning

infrastructure, capacity scaling, remediation actions, and service teardown. These features help IT teams to broaden their business

solutions, improve responsiveness, and simplify complex IT processes.

The integration is developed using the VMware vRO SDK and Active System Manager’s newly published REST APIs. The ASM

Integration for vRO are given to ASM customers to install it into their vRealize Orchestrator environment. After installing the

integration, customers can use the workflows packaged with the plugin or they can create their own workflows using the ASM

attributes implemented in the creation of the plugin. IT administrators use the two main management products for this integration:

• VMware’s vCenter Server

• VMware vRealize Automation Center

ASM integration for vRealize Orchestrator also enables the vRealize Automation (vRA) to integrate with VMware vRealize

Orchestrator (vRO).

VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) allows:

• Any template in ASM, whether infrastructure or workload, to be published as a service in vCAC (vCloud Automation Center)

portal.

• Enables any ASM function to be called from vCO for broader orchestration.

vRealize Automation (vRA, formerly known as vCloud Automation Center) enables:

• Consumption portal and service catalog

• Broad workflow and process integration

• Aggregation of anything as a service, including any ASM-based template or ASM action such as scaling and remediation

This integration enables unique services not supported by VMware, physical, hybrid physical-virtual, multi-hypervisor, infrastructure

scaling, and remediation. The ASM vRO Integration supports vCO and vRO versions 5.5 and 6.0.