If you haven’t already noticed, we are in what I like to call “The Age of Integration”. I am sure research organizations have another fancy term for it though. I look at it this movement as a complex puzzle without a good picture. Whoever gets the next piece to it’s matching pair wins! We already have all the pieces for storage, servers, networks, API’s, hypervisors, monitoring, etc…
I have recently been working with some smart folks on beginning to use vCO for deep automation within vSphere and extending that automation into the application stack for vApp deployment and am very impressed and confused all at the same time. I am impressed at the extensibility of Orchestrator and seemingly limitless possibilities of the framework but also perplexed at what seems to be only a few companies actually using the product. Nevertheless I encourage everyone to explore what vCenter Orchestrator can do.
In thinking about “how the pieces fit together” I came up with a simple drawing below. Please beware this is simply how I see the world of integration from a high level… :-)
A couple good links by the vCO Team…
vCO Team Site (a rather new but excellent site by the vCO team)
VMware’s Official Orchestrator Community:
