Configuring an external Orchestrator in vRA
vRA comes with an installed and configured Orchestrator. While VMware now recommends using the embedded vRO in production systems, this primarily applies to small-/medium-sized infrastructure deployments. In much larger enterprise deployments, it may be beneficial to use an external vRO cluster.
Another example is if you require a different vRO for a given tenant.
Getting ready
Please make sure you read the introduction to vRA at the beginning of this chapter. We need a functional and configured vRA.
How to do it...
This recipe has three parts. First, we will configure the Orchestrator, bind it to vRA, and then we will clean up the vRA appliance.
Tip
Changing between Orchestrators will result in losing all your endpoints that you have configured with Orchestrator.
Building and configuring an external Orchestrator
To attach an external Orchestrator, we first need an Orchestrator that we can connect to:
- Install the Orchestrator appliance (refer to the Deploying...
