Hi people,
I'm trying to see if vAPP deployment process can be automated. I've setup Orchestrator and installed required plug-ins for this..
Here is what I have right now..
vCenter Orchestrator 5.1 - Windows VM
vCenter Server 5.1
vCloud Director plug-in 5.1
AMQP plug-in 1.0
Infoblox IPAM plug-in 1.0 (Infoblox is used as an enterprise IP address mgmt solution for our company)
Active Directory plug-in 1.0
PowerShell plug-in 1.0 (Still facing issue and working on it with community - http://communities.vmware.com/message/2220808
RabbitMQ running as a service on a different windows server. AMQP Plug-in and vCD are configured using http://www.vcoteam.info/learn-vco/configure-the-amqp-plug-in.html as a reference.
Here is what I want to accomplish...
Once a vApp is being deployed from a template in vCD, vCO should get notified and IPAM plug-in needs to come in to assign IP Addresses to the VMs in the vApp. Once this is done the vApp will be deployed in the vCD.
With all the necessary pieces I already have, I know there is surely a way to accomplish this. I'm kind of lost in bringing these pieces together in the required order.
Also I think I will need a customized workflow for IPAM to address the need. Can I use "Create vApp with VM networks configured via IPAM" workflow which came with the IPAM plug-in?
Can someone also tell me what a blocking task notification which triggers from vCD contain? A sample notification please..
Regards,
VMSavvy 