Automating with vRO 7 - Part 34 - API Explorer - How to Use It
This is the thirty fourth(!) video in a ten part video series. IIn this video, Brian Watrous takes you on a deeper dive into the API Explorer in vRealize Orchestrator.
URL for the entire ten part video series: http://tinyurl.com/vrovideos
The VVork examples package mentioned in this video can be downloaded from http://tinyurl.com/vvork-vroexamples . If tinyurl.com is blocked in your environment, you can get the package directly from https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xnopzowekp... .
If you are interested in learning about vRealize Orchestration in depth, attend one of the following courses:
Data Center Automation with vRealize Orchestrator and vSphere PowerCLI
https://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/cou...
VMware Cloud Orchestration and Extensibility [V7.6]
https://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/cou...
00:19 What is the API Explorer
00:40 API Explorer Icons Explained
01:08 Grey API Explorer Icons Explained
01:39 Purple, Blue, & Green API Explorer Icons Explained
01:49 Purple API Explorer Icons Explained
02:26 Properties - Hollow Black Dot API Explorer Icons Explained
02:41 Methods - Solid Black Dot API Explorer Icons Explained
07:15 Blue API Explorer Icons Explained
08:30 Constructor Methods
08:45 Green API Explorer Icons Explained
09:15 Constructor Methods (Continued)
14:52 Actions and Modules
16:18 Plug-in Objects
20:06 VC:VirtualMachine
21:45 blahBlahBlah_Task( ) - Asynchronous Methods
23:17 Using Search
26:40 More about VC:VirtualMachine
27:11 The .numCPU Property
31:07 The .memoryMB Property
31:14 The device[ ] Property
31:37 Putting Info into Practice
36:33 Logging name of a VM
38:17 Logging number of CPUs in a VM
38:34 Logging amount of vRAM in a VM
40:20 A “Trick” for Remembering a Method’s Signature
41:32 Asynchronous Methods
43:20 VC:Task