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Automate vRealize Orchestrator with PowerShell: Introducing PowervRO
For the PowerCLI book 2nd Edition I helped put together a chapter on vRealize Orchestrator. Most of the chapter was focused on running PowerShell scripts from vRO, which was something I’d had a fair...
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Obtaining vRO Workflow State and Result with PowervRO
In the previous episode we looked at how to invoke a vRO workflow with PowerShell, via PowervRO and the Invoke-vROWorkflow function. Once you have kicked the workflow off you are likely to then want to...
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Exporting and Importing vRO Workflows with PowervRO
There are a number of different ways to get your developed vRO content from one system to another: exporting / importing single items, exporting / importing vRO Packages containing multiple items,...
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Export vRO Workflow Schema Images with PowervRO
Aside from any documentation around your vRO workflows, one of the best ways to quickly get up-to-speed with what it does and visualise how it is put together is to look at the schema. Wouldn’t it be...
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Exporting and Importing vRO Packages with PowervRO
One thing that I know colleagues and others are keen to automate with PowerShell and vRO is exporting and importing vRO packages. If you’re not familiar with a vRO package it is typically used to...
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Using Pester and PowervRO as a Unit Test Framework for vRO
vRealize Orchestrator doesn’t have an in-built Unit Test Framework, however I realised that it might be possible to use a combination of Pester and PowervRO for now to achieve similar results. Let’s...
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PowervRO – Now available on macOS and Linux via PowerShell Core!
Back Story Back in January 2017 Craig and I made PowervRA available for macOS and Linux via PowerShell Core. It was always our intention to do the same thing for PowervRO and , although slightly later...
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When Craig and I first created PowervRA and PowervRO in 2016 we only initially thought about using them for our own purposes, since we were on a project at the time which required heavy use of...
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