Which products can be orchestrated with vCenter Orchestrator ?

June 14, 2010

As of version 4.0.2, vCO has out-of-the-box support for the entire vCenter Server 4 API, as well as generic plug-ins that provide email, SSH, database, and XML APIs, allowing you to integrate with a large number of products. Also, vCO supports other plug-ins that are available as separate downloads, for example the Microsoft (Active Directory and WMI), and VMware Infrastructure 3.5 (vCenter 2.5) plug-ins.
VMware partners are also developing vCO plug-ins. For example F5 Network is developing a vCO plug-in.
vCO customers have used the open plug-in API to create custom plug-ins to orchestrate their specific environments.

Christophe has worked at VMware, Inc., where he started in 2007 after VMware acquired Dunes. Based in Gland, Switzerland, Christophe is a global resource supporting customers in their orchestration and automation needs. He has presented orchestration solutions at conferences such as VMworld and is the primary contributor to this site.