In this article by Daniel Langenhan, author of VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook, Second Edition, will show you how to move an existing Windows Orchestrator installation to the appliance. With vRO 7 the Windows install of Orchestrator doesn’t exist anymore.
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We need an Orchestrator installed on windows.
Download the same version of the Orchestrator appliance as you have installed in the Windows version. If needed upgrade the Windows version to the latest possible one.
There are three ways, using the migration tool, repointing to an external database or export/import the packages.
There is a migration tool that comes with vRO7 that allows you to pack up your vRO5.5 or 6.x install and deploy it into a vRO7. The migration tool works on Windows and Linux. It collects the configuration, the plug-ins as well as their configuration certificates, and licensing into a file. Follow these steps to use the migration tool:
If you have an external database things are pretty easy. For using the initial internal database please see the additional steps in the There’s more section of this recipe.
This is the method that will only pull your packages across. This the only easy method to use when you are transitioning between different databases, such as between MS SQL and PostgreSQL.
Moving from the Windows version of Orchestrator to the Appliance version isn’t such a big thing. Worst case scenario is using the packaging transfer. The only really important thing is to use the same version of the Windows Orchestrator as the Appliance version. You can download a lot of old versions including 5.5 from http://www.vmware.com/in.html. If you can’t find the same version, upgrade your existing vCenter Orchestrator to one you can download.
After you transferred the data to the appliance you need to make sure that everything works correctly and then you can upgrade to vRO7.
When you just run Orchestrator from your Windows vCenter installation and didn’t configure an external database then Orchestrator uses the vCenter database and mixes the Orchestrator tables with the vCenter tables. In order to only export the Orchestrator ones, we will use the MS SQL Server Management Studio (free download from www.microsoft.com called Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM).
To transfer the only the Orchestrator database tables from the vCenter MS-SQL to an external SQL do the following:
Now you have the Orchestrator database extracted as an external database. You still need to configure a user and rights. Then proceed with the section External database in this recipe.
This recipe shows a hack how to make the Orchestrator client scale on 4K displays.
We need to download the program Resource Tuner (http://www.restuner.com/) the trial version will work, however, consider buying it if it works for you.
You need to know the path to your Java install, this should be something like:
C:Program Files (x86)Javajre1.x.xxbin
Before you start….
Please be careful as this impacts your whole Java environment. This worked for me very well with Java 1.8.0_91-b14.
In Windows 10 you can set the scaling of applications when you are using high definition monitors (4K displays).
What you are doing is telling Java that it is not DPI aware, meaning it the will use the Windows 10 default scaler, instead of an internal scaler.
For any other application such as Snagit or Photoshop I found that this solution works quite well:
http://www.danantonielli.com/adobe-app-scaling-on-high-dpi-displays-fix/.
In this article we discussed about moving an existing Windows Orchestrator installation to the appliance and a hack on how to make the Orchestrator client scale on 4K displays.
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