Users Guide

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Integrating with vRealize Automation
The Dell Active System Manager integration with vRealize Orchestrator and its workows are embedded to publish vRealize
Automation Service Blueprints. The result allows you to call ASM using the vRealize Orchestrator workow which is used through
the vRA self-service catalog items.
Prerequisite for vRA Integration
Make sure that you have met the following prerequisites for vRA Integration:
1. There are two distinctive modes of operations in vRA. The system administrator congures the general system settings such as
tenants management, branding, email servers conguration . The system administrator's account cannot be used to manage
self-service items for users. Each tenant manages its catalogs and services for vRA catalog management. Therefore, there must
be tenant organizations in the target vRA environment other than the vsphere.local tenant.
2. The vRA is shipped with vRO running on the same appliance. By default, vRA is congured to use this vRO. However, if the
administrator chooses to use a dierent vRO server, the vRA system setting must be modied to use the external vRO server
where the ASM vRO Integration exists.
3. Finally, there has to be an account with sucient privilege to add and modify the tenant service catalog items. Either the Tenant
Administrator or the Service Architect role grants this privilege. To run the following workow, either of these accounts must be
in use.
Non-Interactive Workow as vRA XaaS Blueprints
By using the non-interactive workow, you can create and publish vRA XaaS Blueprints in the easiest way. Modify the non-
interactive sample workow in vRO by setting the attributes or create a workow with all the attributes set (no input exists to the
workow). For better illustration, assume that a sample workow has been modied. Navigation path for the workow is Deploy
Service workow → Dell Active System Manager → Sample Workow → Non-interactive folder. vRA’s attributes are set to
deploy an ASM Template into an ASM Service to provision virtual machines in a vCenter cluster.
The following instruction describes how to convert the ASM sample workow (non-reactive) to vRA-friendly workow:
1. Log in to the vRA tenant console (It is accessible at https://VRA_HOSTNAME/vcac/org/TENANT_NAME) using the
privileged account.
NOTE: This step is optional. Existing Service can be used instead of using a new Service to contain the XaaS
Blueprints.
2. Click the Administration tab.
3. Select Catalog Management, and then the Services.
4. Create a service, and add the service to an entitlement.
5. Click the Design tab.
6. In the left pane, expand XaaS, and then click Select XaaS Blueprint.
7. Click Add on the right pane to add a new XaaS Blueprint.
8. First select the Deploy Service workow that was modied earlier in vRO.
9. Click Next .
10. Edit the details as needed, then proceed.
NOTE: A blueprint form is not required for a non-interactive workow.
11. Click Next, and make sure that no resource is provisioned after running the workow.
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