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manipulating virtual servers. With the Perl toolkit, leveraged against the VMware SDK, any
task that can be accomplished in the Virtual Infrastructure client can be done from the com-
mand line.
Master It Browse the sample scripts and SDK documentation to discover the world of
possibilities that are unlocked by using Perl, or any of the other supported languages, to
accomplish management tasks.
Coni gure vCenter Orchestrator vCenter Orchestrator is designed to allow vSphere
administrators to run workl ows against the vSphere environment and much more. To
orchestrate against things like Active Directory and UCS or to run PowerShell scripts, you
need the appropriate plug-ins installed and coni gured.
Master It How can you tell which plug-ins are installed and available for your use?
Use a vCenter Orchestrator workl ow After vCenter Orchestrator is coni gured and run-
ning, you can use the vCenter Orchestrator client to run a vCenter Orchestrator workl ow.
vCenter Orchestrator comes with a number of preinstalled workl ows to help automate tasks.
Master It An administrator in your environment coni gured vCenter Orchestrator and
has now asked you to run a couple of workl ows. However, when you log into the vCenter
Server instance where vCenter Orchestrator is also installed, you don't see the icons for
vCenter Orchestrator. Why?
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