vCenter Orchestrator is part of the management vServices. This will be available (suprise suprise) next year.
What you can do with this is drag-and-drop development of customized workflows to automate operational task.
Examples of what you can do with this are:
Provisioning
- automate builds of ESX and VMs
- Provisioning storage and network related devices relating to virtual infrastructure
Managing applications and operating systems
- automating appl installation and basic configuration
maintenance and a bit of DR
- creating or moving VMs during maintenance
- pre-provisioning of VMs
Backup and decommissioning
- managing archives, backups, and snapshots of VMs
I recorded the demo that was shown. It was actually pretty funny, because what he created was a workflow to do a quick migration of a virtual machine. So what Microsoft is doing with Hyper-V now, an administrator can create an automated workflow with Orchestrator in less then 5 minutes.
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September 17th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
It’s the old Dunes software… VSO !
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Sven Huisman reply on September 17th, 2008 10:45 pm:
Thanks, forgot to mention that.
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September 22nd, 2008 at 11:17 pm
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