vCenter Orchestrator Silent Install

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 the benefit? If you look at vCO's Configuration Maximums it's not entirely obvious is it?

You'd need a very large environment to *need* more than one vCO server let alone to need a method of automatically deploying them. Either that or a very particular use case.