Adding a vCloud Air (PAYG/Gen2) instance to vRealize Orchestrator as a vCloud Director host

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<a class="" href="/category/sam-mcgeown">Sam McGeown</a>

Published on 19/4/2016 - Read in about 1 min (140 words)

Published under <a class="" href="/category/vmware">VMware</a>, <a class="" href="/category/vrealize-automation">vRealize Automation</a> and <a class="" href="/category/vrealize-orchestrator">vRealize Orchestrator</a> #Automation #Hybrid Cloud #vCA #vCHS #vCloud Air #vRA #vRealize Automation #vRealize Orchestrator #vro

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Big thanks to Jose Luis Gomez for this solution, his response to my tweet was spot on and invaluable!

I’ve been trying to configure vCloud Air as a vCloud Director host in vRealize Orchestrator in order to create some custom resource actions for Day 2 operations in vRealize Automation. What I found was that there’s *very* little information out there on how to do this, and I ended up writing my own custom resource mapping for the virtual machines to VCAC:VirtualMachine objects - at least that way I could add my resource action. But this still didn’t expose the vCloud Director functionality for those machines. To do this I needed vCloud Air added as a vCloud Director host.

As per Jose’s advice, I duplicated the “com.vmware.library.vCloud.Host/addHost” action, named it “addHost_vCA_G2”:

I then modified the following line to include “/api/compute”:

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Adding a vCloud Air (PAYG/Gen2) instance to vRealize Orchestrator as a vCloud Director host

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