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title: "VMware Aria Automation Workflows"
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These workflows are called automatically by VMware Aria Automation Assembler while processing a cloud template deployment. They are not intended to be run manually. The VMware Aria Automation Provider for NIOS DDI includes VMware Aria Automation workflows of the following types:

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## VMware Aria Automation workflows for VM provisioning/deprovisioning

These workflows are called internally when VMware Aria Automation executes VM provisioning and deprovisioning requests.  
Access the VMware Aria Automation workflows for VM provisioning in the VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator console by navigating to **<admin>** –> **Library** –> **Infoblox** –> **Aria Automation**.  
Note that the VMware Aria Automation workflows can be viewed only from the VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator console.

| **Workflow** | **Description** |
| --- | --- |
| Allocate | This workflow is called by VMware Aria Automation to allocate a block of next available IP addresses in NIOS during VM provisioning. In each allocation, there are multiple sub-allocations. Each sub-allocation is the allocation of IP addresses for a single NIC interface for the Virtual Machine. As part of Allocate, the workflow returns the DHCP options along with the IP address. |
| Allocate IP Range | This workflow is called by VMware Aria Automation to add a network in NIOS based on the subnet size specified in the network profile. |
| Deallocate IP Range | This workflow is called by VMware Aria Automation to remove the network created in NIOS once the deployment is terminated. |
| Get IP Blocks | This workflow is called by VMware Aria Automation to get the list of IP Blocks (containers) from NIOS. |
| Release | This workflow releases the IP addresses allocated to the resource in NIOS and also deletes the associated records. |
| Get IP Ranges | This workflow is called by VMware Aria Automation to get a list of IP ranges (networks and ranges) from NIOS. This is a data collection workflow that synchronizes data between NIOS and VMware Aria Automation. This workflow is run every 10 minutes. |
| Update | After the allocation of IP address, this workflow is called to update, in NIOS, the MAC addresses associated with the VM. It is triggered on the *WFStubMachineProvisioned* event from VMware Aria Automation. |

## Helpers

These include various helper workflows called internally by the plug-In during the execution of various tasks.