VM Tools upgrade with Orchestrator

Unless your have been living under a rock or in a video game virtual world in your parents basement for the last year, you already know that Automation in IT is the big buzz word.  Further more, you probably already know that Vmware comes bundled with Orchestrator when you install your VCenter.  Orchestrator comes with a lot of canned Workflows (scripts) that allow you to automate tasks in your Vcenter which when you couple with scheduling these tasks should make the life of an Enterprise IT admin much easier and free up some evening and weekend hours!

While Orchestrator comes with some good workflows to start you off, right off the bat I noticed there was one in particular that I was looking for that was not already a part of Orchestrator.  For the record, in order to create your own workflows, you need to have VCenter standard or higher licensing.  You may still use Orchestrator with the Essentials or Essentials plus license but you are limited to the built in workflows or importing them.

I set out on a hardy adventure to create my own workflow.  Don't worry... Orchestrator is heavy on the Gui side, but will require some scripting and further research on your part to figure it out... be patient.  The script in particular I was looking for was to update the VM tools on all the VM's in a cluster that I set.  I was able to do this successfully and have attached the workflow to this post.  Feel free to download it and import it into Orchestrator for your own use.  ***USE AT YOUR OWN RISK***

Here is a snapshot of the workflow:

Happy Virtualizing!