Get Resource Pools Activity

Applies To: System Center 2012 - Orchestrator, System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator, System Center 2012 SP1 - Orchestrator

The Get Resource Pools activity is used in a runbook to retrieve a list of all the resource pools in managed by the VMware vSphere system. This allows the runbook to retrieve the resources pools before using the Get Resource Pool Runtime Info Activity.

The following tables list the required and optional properties and published data for this activity.

The activity publishes all of the data from the required and optional properties into published data. Additional published data is generated based on the class that you select when you define the activity.

Get Resource Pools Activity Required Properties

No required properties are provided for this activity.

Get Resource Pools Activity Optional Properties

No optional properties are provided for this activity.

Get Resource Pools Activity Published Data

Name Description Value Type

Resource Pool

A list of resource pool paths within the vCenter server.

String

Configuring the Get Resource Pools Activity

The following procedure describes the steps required to configure a Get Resource Pools activity.

To configure the Get Resource Pools Activity

  1. From the Activities pane, drag a Get Resource Pools activity to the active runbook.

  2. Double-click the Get Resource Pools activity icon. The Properties dialog box opens.

  3. Configure the settings in the Properties tab as follows:

    1. In the Configuration section, click the ellipsis button (...), and then select the VMware vSphere server connection that you want to use for this activity. Click OK.
  4. Click Finish.