Summary

This chapter touched on the basic data model as well as variable types of vRealize Orchestrator. Although all this is only scratching the surface of vRO, it gave a deep insight into how workflows are created as well as how they could be linked with vRA in order to enable powerful and rich third-party integration points. This is probably one of the vRO's strongest capabilities.

Also, the scripting components based on JavaScript where discussed. Given the well-implemented help for JavaScript and all scripting classes, it should be possible to get up to speed on JavaScript after a little warm-up phase.

In the next chapter, the focus will be on the creation of a rich service catalog. The service catalog is the most important functionality of the SDDC. The services have to be easy to use as well as valuable and useful to the end users based on their business case. The chapter will also discuss how services and service catalogs will be created and maintained in vRA. But not only will the...