This list contains usefull links for the VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO). There are many useful resources distributed at different places. This list should help to find specific documents faster and explore new pages/projects.
Feel free to contribute and make pull requests to correct or extend the list.
- vRealize Orchestrator - Product landing page
- VMware Docs - Current - Current orchestrator documentation provided by VMware for different versions (Version 5.5 - current)
- VMware documentation - Legacy - Legacy VMware orchestrator documentation (Version 4 - 5.1.3.1)
- vPorts - An overview about ports used by VMware products with links to further documentation
- Product Lifecycle Matrix - VMware lifecycle matrix including the Orchestrator
Supported versions
- 8.0
- 7.6
- 7.5
- 7.4
- 7.3 (+7.3.1)
- 7.2
- 7.1
- 7.0 (+7.0.1)
- Using Orchestrator Plugins - Official documentation of plug-in infrastructure with background information about plug-ins
- Description of built-in plugins - Description of the built-in plug-ins and their purpose with additional docs per plug-in
- VMware Marketplace - List of orchestrator plug-ins provided by different parties
- PowervRO - Integration of orchestrator into powershell (e.g. start orchestrator workflow by powershell)
- vRoast - Visual Studio Code & Git Integration for vRO
- vro-package-diff - A diff tool (written in python) for VMware vRealize Orchestrator packages files
- vRealize Build Tools - vRealize Build Tools provides tools to development and release teams implementing solutions based on vRealize Automation (vRA) and vRealize Orchestrator (vRO)
- vRealize Developer Tools - A Visual Studio Code extension that provides code intelligence features and enables a more developer-friendly experience when creating vRealize Orchestrator and vRealize Automation content.
- vRO Code Exchange - A lot of Code examples for vRO, external plugins and API´s
- vRO API Explorer - API Explorer from vRO in a webpage overview
- VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials - General introduction to vro
- VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition - Introduction to the Orchestrator with helpful recipes and documentation about the appliance setup
- Eloquent JavaScript - Free ebook about JavaScript
- Data Center Automation with vRealize Orchestrator and vSphere PowerCLI - VMware Education automation trainig for orchestrator and PowerCLI
- VMware Cloud Orchestration and Extensibility - VMware Education training for vro in combination with vra
- Introduction to Workflow Development with VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) - Pluralsight online training for the vro
- Automating with vRealize Orchestrator - YouTube playlist with an Orchestrator introduction by Brian Watrous
- vCenter Orchestrator Playlist of VMware Education & Certification - Series of videos to get started with the orchestrator
- vBrownBag - Joerg Lew teaching vRealize Orchestrator - Introduction to vro by Joerg Lew
- #vBrownBag Automation Track - Collection of recordings about vro, powercli and other automation topics
- vRealize Orchestrator Community - Very helpful and active community with lots of content and people that actively help you with questions/problems
- VMware {code} - Slack channel for #vro and other VMware products
- VMUG - Real-Life Community around the world with interesting customer presentations and networking time
- vCOTeam - Lots of useful orchestrator articles with helpful code snippets
- virtuallyGhetto - Tons of helpful articles about VMware automation provided by William Lam
- RuneCast - Blog with very interessting plugin and security topics for vRO
- vCO Portal - Lots of useful orchestrator articles with helpful code snippets
- Spas Kaloferov's Blog - High Quality Content Blog with vRO Topics provided by Spas Kaloferov
- vra4u - Quite new but already interesting blog about vRO and vRA
- @vCOTeam
- @vRealizeAuto
- @Runecast
- @joerglew
- #vRO - Popular twitter hashtag for orchestrator content