I have been lately involved in conducting integration between vCloud Director and a Cloud Provider Market Place. The Cloud Provider wanted to use vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) for this integration, as there is different integrations point they wanted to integrate with beyond vCloud Director and they did not want to learn multiple APIs. What is nice about vRO, after you learn it’s API, you can use it to execute workflows against multiple solution using a very similar API calls.

I was able to find them multiple articles on how to invoke Vro Workflow from Rest API, but it was not easy to find one that showed my partner the full steps in a simple way, so I am sharing below what I have documented to help my partner with it from scratch.

Alright before we start on the API calls, I have created a simple vRO workflow “AWSNEW” that requires only one input variable “name”. My particular workflow will just deploy an instance to AWS, but in reality the workflow you are calling can be doing anything or talking to any different endpoint that is supported by vRO, and you will still be able to call it the same way.

To call a vRO workflow from Rest API, you will need to know the Workflow ID, and the inputs required. … Read More