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Adding a vCloud Air (PAYG/Gen2) instance to vRealize Orchestrator as a vCloud Director host

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Sam McGeown
VMware VRealize Automation VRealize Orchestrator Automation Hybrid Cloud VCA VCHS VCloud Air Vra Vrealize Automation VRealize Orchestrator VRO
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vRABig thanks to Jose Luis Gomez for this solution, his response to my tweet was spot on and invaluable!

I’ve been trying to configure vCloud Air as a vCloud Director host in vRealize Orchestrator in order to create some custom resource actions for Day 2 operations in vRealize Automation. What I found was that there’s *very* little information out there on how to do this, and I ended up writing my own custom resource mapping for the virtual machines to VCAC:VirtualMachine objects - at least that way I could add my resource action. But this still didn’t expose the vCloud Director functionality for those machines. To do this I needed vCloud Air added as a vCloud Director host.

As per Jose’s advice, I duplicated the “com.vmware.library.vCloud.Host/addHost” action, named it “addHost_vCA_G2”:

I then modified the following line to include “/api/compute”:

newHost.url = "https://" + host + ":" + port;

Becomes

newHost.url = "https://" + host + ":" + port + "/api/compute";

I then duplicated the "Add a connection" workflow to create "Add a connection (vCloud Air Gen2)" and swapped the old action for the new action:

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Now I can add vCloud Air (PAYG/Gen2) as an endpoint in the normal way:

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The out-of-the-box "IaaS vCD VM" Resource Mapping now works in vRA and I can create custom Resource Actions against the vCloud:VM object type.

Once again, big thanks to Jose for this solution!