7.3

You have a working Dukes Bank sample application to use as a starting point for developing your own
blueprints, as a tool to evaluate vRealize Automation, or as a learning resource to assist you in
understanding vRealize Automation functionality and components.
Building Your Design Library
You can build out a library of reusable blueprint components that your architects can assemble into
application blueprints for delivering elaborate on-demand services to your users.
Build out a library of the smallest blueprint design components: single machine blueprints, Software
components, and XaaS blueprints, then combine these base building blocks in new and different ways to
create elaborate catalog items that deliver increasing levels of functionality to your users.
Note that sample blueprints are available at the VMware Solution Exchange at
https://solutionexchange.vmware.com and at https://code.vmware.com.
Table 3‑2. Building Your Design Library
Catalog Item Role Components Description Details
Machines Infrastructure
architect
Create machine
blueprints on the
Blueprints tab.
You can create machine blueprints to
rapidly deliver virtual, private and public, or
hybrid cloud machines to your users.
Published machine blueprints are available
for catalog administrators to include in the
catalog as standalone blueprints, but you
can also combine machine blueprints with
other components to create more
elaborate catalog items that include
multiple machine blueprints, Software, or
XaaS blueprints.
Configure a Machine
Blueprint
NSX Network
and security
on machines
Infrastructure
architect
Add NSX network
and security
components to
vSphere machine
blueprints on the
Blueprints tab.
You can configure network and security
components such as network profiles and
security groups, to allow virtual machines
to communicate with each other over
physical and virtual networks securely and
efficiently.
You must combine network and security
components with at least one vSphere
machine component before catalog
administrators can include them in the
catalog. You can only apply NSX network
and security components to vSphere
machine blueprints.
Designing Blueprints
with NSX Settings
Configuring vRealize Automation
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