Microsoft has released an integration pack for VMware vSphere for System Center 2012 Orchestrator. This add-on allows you to automate actions in VMware vSphere via a common platform. The Integration Pack includes the following activities:
- Add Network Adapter
- Add VM Disk
- Clone Linux VM
- Clone Windows VM
- Create VM
- Customize VM
- Delete VM
- Get Cluster Properties
- Get Datastore Capacity
- Get Hosts
- Get Resource Pool Runtime Info
- Get Resource Pools
- Get VM List
- Get VM Properties
- Get VM Status
- Migrate VM
- Move VM
- Reconfigure VM
- Reset VM
- Revert VM Snapshot
- Set Guest Info Variables
- Set VM CD/DVD to ISO Image
- Set VM Networks
- Start VM
- Stop VM
- Suspend VM
- Take VM Snapshot
- Maintenance Mode
- Get Host Properties
- Get Host Datastores
This integration pack includes the following features:
- The Get Hosts activity now returns, in the published data, the state of the Host in the cluster, such as running or maintenance mode.
- The Clone VM activity now does not show the datastore or hosts in object’s subscription list which aren’t available. Previously all datastores / hosts were returned, now only the available ones are returned.
- New timeout field added to the options menu for all VMware vSphere activities. If no value is given, this will default to 100 seconds.
- Support added for ESX 4.1 and as a result adding support for Windows 7 Guest Operating Systems as well as other operating systems, as below:
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- The 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7
- The 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 R2
- The 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows
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