We have been communicated today that there was a change in the vCO 4.1 release notes since our original vCenter Orchestrator 4.1 release article.

The web-views, while still being supported in vCO 4.1 were listed as deprecated. The release notes have been updated and the web views are not in the deprecated features list anymore. We can now assume this functionality will still be supported in the next major release of vCO.

VMware has announced a few days ago that LCM is End of Life. Please check the FAQ for more details.

For those of you not familiar with it, VMware Lifecycle Manager is a workflow based application running on top of vCenter Orchestrator. vCenter Orchestrator is not impacted by the LCM EOA.

Hey everyone I just got back to the hotel after a nice 13 hour day at VMworld! I'm working labs 11-15 and am Co-Presenting the Orchestrating the Cloud session Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Today's session from 3pm-4pm had over 130 people checked in and felt like it went pretty well. The session was intended to be discussion heavy around using VMware vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) to to perform cloud automation. As such, we presented a short series of 3 videos that highlight the usage of an upcoming vCO plug-in for VMware vCloud Director! There were plenty of questions throughout the session. If you happened to be at the session today and are stopping by to check out the site, please feel free to register and comment on this article and/or use the "Contact Us" form to provide us with feedback - and don't forget to fill out the online form for the Orchestrating the Cloud session at VMworld!

With over 16,000 (17,000) people in attendance this year, the labs are rockin' and people are excited :) Hope to see you here!

For those of you who managed to make it in on Monday - THANK YOU VERY MUCH for stopping by. If you missed Monday's session, we have 2 more sessions: 1 on Tuesday morning and a final one on Wednesday morning.

UPDATE: FYI - Day two of the labs saw the total labs deployed counter roll right past 8,000 labs!!! And we still have a couple days left!

The recently released vCenter Orchestrator 4.1 requires and takes advantage of a 64-bit OS. For development purposes, it can be desirable to have a single server to perform the following roles:

• Windows Domain Controller (Active Directory)
• E-mail Server (POP3/SMTP)
• Database Server
• vCenter Server
• vCO Server
• vCO Client

This short article is intended to help you get all these services running on a single server. Setting up these features in an incorrect order may result in conflicting ports and/or the inability to get some of the software installed.