Introduction

This blogpost is simply about giving a consolidated view on all the official guides that VMware provides for vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestrator. These guides can help Automation Engineers & Developers, Solution Architects, vRealize Admins, etc and can be used as a reference for developing vRO Code, vRA Templates and various other tasks. You can download them from the provided links for offline access.

Guides for VMware Aria Automation (formerly vRealize Automation)

Architecture

Download: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Automation/8.11/vrealize-automation-reference-architecture.pdf

Aria Automation Assembler (formerly Cloud Assembly)

Download: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/SaaS/Using-Automation-Assembler.pdf

Aria Automation Pipeline (formerly Code Stream)

Download: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/SaaS/using-automation-pipelines.pdf

Aria Automation Consumption (formerly Service Broker)

Download: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/SaaS/Using-Automation-Consumption.pdf

Aria Automation Config (formerly SaltStack Config)

Download: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/SaaS/Using-Automation-Config.pdf

Aria Automation for Secure Hosts (formerly SaltStack SecOps)

Download: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/SaaS/using-automation-secure-hosts.pdf

Aria Automation for Secure Clouds (formerly CloudHealth Secure State)

Download: https://docs.vmware.com/en/CloudHealth-Secure-State/services/chss-usage.pdf

Transition Guide

Download: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Automation/8.3/vrealize-automation-transition.pdf

Migration

Download: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Automation/8.9/extensibility-migration.pdf

Cloud Transition (SaaS only)

Download: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Automation/services/vrealize-automation-cloud-transition-guide.pdf

Integration with ServiceNow

Download: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Automation/8.7/Configuring-for-ServiceNow-ITSM.pdf or https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Automation/8.8/Configuring-for-ServiceNow-ITSM.pdf

Load Balancing

Download: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Automation/8.6/vrealize-automation-load-balancing-guide.pdf

NSX-T Migration

Download: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Automation/8.10/vrealize-automation-v2tmigration.pdf

Guides for Aria Automation Orchestrator (formerly vRealize Orchestrator)

Installation

Download: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Orchestrator/8.11/vrealize-orchestrator-811-install-config-guide.pdf

User Interface

Download: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Orchestrator/8.8/vrealize-orchestrator-88-using-client-guide.pdf

Developer’s Guide

Download: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Orchestrator/8.2/vrealize-orchestrator-82-developers-guide.pdf

Migration

Download: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Orchestrator/8.7/vrealize-orchestrator-87-upgrade-migrate-guide.pdf

Plug-in Development

Download: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Orchestrator/8.0/vrealize-orchestrator-80-plugindev-guide.pdf

Plug-in Guide

Download: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Orchestrator/8.4/vrealize-orchestrator-84-using-plugins-guide.pdf

VMware Ready Plug-in Certification Guide

Download: https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/f1ee4bd6-f064-460b-a25d-7f7198da3580/83273cbc-1b70-4403-8996-0e1112021230/vRO%20Plugin%20Program%20Guide%20v1.9.pdf

I will try to update this list over time. Hope this list of guides will help you in understanding things a little better. Feel free to share.