Article by Michael Poore (@mpoore) Is it possible to install vCO on a Windows server silently? Yes. If you have the EXE file (DVDDrive:vCenter-ServervCOvCenterOrchestrator.exe) available on the server then installing is as simple as: [text]D:vCenter-ServervCO>vCenterOrchestrator.exe -i silent[/text] It takes a few seconds to complete but at the end of it the vCO Configuration service is present and running: Of course that's just installing vCO, it's not configured – that's still to be done (see my earlier article on configuring vCO). So, what's the point of doing such an install then? Where's…
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Article by Michael Poore (@mpoore) The binaries for vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) come bundled alongside vCenter Server and are installed by default when vCenter is installed. But what if, and it's probably a better practice, you want to install vCO on a separate server to vCenter. How's that done? Before running through that, first let's cover requirements. vCO server components must be installed on a 64-bit Windows OS. The client component can happily sit on 32-bit. The minimum recommended RAM is 4GB but in a lab or non-production environment you can get away with less depending on if the database is…
Article by Michael Poore (@mpoore) vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) is a no charge extra for vCenter Server owners. In fact the binaries are installed alongside vCenter Server itself. This post covers what you need to configure vCO and start to use it. It's based on the GA release of vCenter 5.0. (Of course I should point out that other orchestration products are available.) Pre-requisites If you've met the pre-requisites for vCenter Server, you've also met them for vCO. If you've installed vCenter Server, the vCO client and server binaries are already present on your vCenter server. The only thing left…