VMworld2014 |14.10.| [MGT2525] Chasing the White Rabbit …

Think automation as a pyramid

Top: scripts
Middle: Orchestration
Bottom: Policies

vRealize Automation (vRA)

• Automation Tech.: policy bases, built-in
• good for
  • self-service
  • service lifecycle management

vRealize Orchestrator (vRO)

• Automation Tech.: Workflow

Autmation tipps:

• measure
  • what did you want to get, what did you get
• you should automate with standardization
• simplify
  • don’t try to automate something that is not to automate … or to expensive to
• build your automation recursively
• test a lot!
• Document
  • vRO can to this very well

Case Study

• examples out of this:
  • uses vRA to add disks to VM and uses vRO to format these disks. Both within the create process of the VM