Is vCenter Orchestrator a new product ?

June 14, 2010

Not really. vCO has been around for several years and has been re-branded a few times. It has been known as:

VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) - a component of the vRealize Suite
VMware vCO - a component of vCenter that has been available since VMware vCenter 4 (released March, 30 2009)
VMO - VMware Orchestrator. (until version 3.2). VMO was underlying platform of VMware Lifecycle Manager (released March, 30 2008)
Dunes VS-O - Virtual Service Orchestrator (until version 3.1.4). The first orchestration software solution for VMware VirtualCenter (released October 28, 2004)
Dunes S-Ops - Application Service Management (released November, 30 2002).

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.