Introduction

In the last two chapters, we took quite an intense look at all the plugins that come with Orchestrator. Now we will look at plugins you can add to it. The selection is based on using them with clients and discussions with other consultants.

There are many different plugins, such as VMware-based plugins for a lot of VMware products, as well as plugins from EMC, NetApp, Cisco UCS, Infoblox, F5, and more.

Installing plugins

Installing plugins is pretty simple; please see recipe Installing Plugins in Chapter 1, Installing and Configuring Orchestrator.

Please note that when you download a plugin, your download should contain either a .vmoapp or .dar file. If the download is a ZIP file, it needs to be unzipped first.

Obtaining plugins

There are three main ways (in my opinion) to get plugins: from the VMware site, from the vCO/vRO team website, and from VMware Solution Exchange.

VMware core plugins

The VMware page ( https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vco_plugins_pubs.html ) contains download...