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Orf Gelbrich
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Task Name

Create VM Folder LOV for users to consume

Description
Prerequisites

vCenter

CategoryWorkflow
ComponentsUCSD 6.6
User Inputs
Output

Instructions for Regular Workflow Use:

  1. Download the attached .ZIP file below to your computer. *Remember the location of the saved file on your computer.
  2. Unzip the file on your computer. Should end up with a .WFD file.
  3. Log in to UCS Director as a user that has "system-admin" privileges.
  4. Navigate to "Policies-->Orchestration" and click on "Import".
  5. Click "Browse" and navigate to the location on your computer where the .WFDX file resides. Choose the .WFDX file and click "Open".
  6. Click "Upload" and then "OK" once the file upload is completed. Then click "Next".
  7. Click the "Select" button next to "Import Workflows". Click the "Check All" button to check all checkboxes and then the "Select" button.
  8. Click "Submit".
  9. A new folder should appear in "Policies-->Orchestration" that contains the imported workflow. You will now need to update the included tasks with information about the specific environment.

The workflow to create a LOV for all the VM folders in vCenter:

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Folders in vCenter:

This is the screen that is exploided:

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Workflow run:

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The new created LOV:

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The scheduling of the workflow:

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The resulting schedule:

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Example of moving a VM in post provisioning to another folder:

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Compute policy:

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VM deployment standard catalog with post provisioning:

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Moving VMs on a mass scale example:

The catalog:

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The workflow selection:

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Execution:

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The workflow:

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The workflows in the file:

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Keep in mind the LOV creation has to run first (or on a schedule) !

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