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Table Of Contents
- Using Application Services
- Contents
- Using Application Services
- Updated Information
- Introducing Application Services
- Install and Configure Application Services
- Installing Application Services
- Preparing to Install Application Services
- Start the Application Services Appliance
- Troubleshooting Problems Connecting to the Application Services Web Interface
- Unlock Your darwin_user Account
- Restart Application Services
- Configure Application Services to Use a Proxy for External URLs
- Register Application Services to vRealize Automation
- Upgrading Application Services
- Setting Up Users and Groups
- Using Tenants and Business Groups in Application Services
- Import Predefined Content to a Tenant
- Using the Application Services Web Interface
- Setting Up Application Provisioning for the Application Services Environment
- Virtual Machine Requirements for Creating vRealize Automation Custom Templates
- Creating Virtual Machine Templates in vRealize Automation
- Updating Existing Virtual Machine Templates in vRealize Automation
- Register the vRealize Automation Cloud Provider and Template
- Create a vRealize Automation Deployment Environment
- Setting Up Application Provisioning for the vCloud Director Environment
- Virtual Machine Requirements for Creating vCloud Director Custom Templates
- Creating Windows Virtual Machine Templates in vCloud Director
- Create Linux Virtual Machine Templates in vCloud Director
- Verify Cloud Template Configuration from the vCloud Director Catalog
- Updating Existing Virtual Machine Templates in vCloud Director
- Exporting Virtual Machine Templates with OVF Format
- Register the vCloud Director Cloud Provider and Template
- Create a vCloud Director Deployment Environment
- Setting Up Application Provisioning for the Amazon EC2 Environment
- Developing Application Services Components
- Managing the Application Services Library
- Creating Applications
- Working with Artifacts
- Deploying Applications
- Setting Up and Configuring a Deployment Profile
- Deploying with Deployment Profiles
- Publishing Deployment Profiles to the vCloud Automation Center Service Catalog
- Request a vRealize Automation Service Catalog Item
- Using the Deployment Summary Page
- Using the Composite Deployment Summary Page
- Understanding the Deployment and Update Process
- Understanding Deployment Failures
- Updating Application Deployments
- Initiate an Update Process to Scale Out Deployments
- Initiate an Update Process to Scale In Deployments
- Initiate an Update Process to Modify Configurations
- Use an Existing Update Profile
- Promote an Update Profile
- Rollback an Update Process
- Understanding Run Custom Task Update
- Troubleshoot Failed Update Process to Scale Deployments
- Troubleshoot Failed Update Process to Modify Configuration
- Deploying Predefined Library Components
- Managing Deployments
- View Deployment Task and Blueprint Details for an Application
- View Deployed VM Details and Execution Plan of an Application
- Start a Policy Scan
- Tear Down an Application from the Cloud
- Scale In Deployments from vCloud Automation Center
- Scale Out Deployments from vCloud Automation Center
- Tear Down an Application from vCloud Automation Center
- Delete an Application Deployment from Application Services
- Cancel a Deployment or an Update Process
- View Policy Compliance Summary
- Using the Application Services CLI
- Using the CLI Import and Export Functions
Deploying Any Application and Middleware Service
With Application Services, application architects can use virtual machine templates and scripts to model
an application deployment with middleware services and applications.
With Application Services, you can deploy applications on Windows and Linux operating systems in the
vCloud Director and vRealize Automation cloud environments. For the Amazon EC2 cloud environment,
you can only deploy applications on Linux operating systems.
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Application architects can use virtual machine templates from a standardized cloud provider library
defined for their enterprise.
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Application architects can also add application components to the middleware services defined in the
application blueprint.
Multicloud Support
Application Services is designed to deploy the same application to multiple types of clouds.
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Application Services encapsulates deployment settings in deployment profiles, separate from
application blueprints. Deployment profiles enable application blueprint portability across private
clouds based on vCloud Director, the public clouds based on Amazon EC2, and use the
vRealize Automation provisioning infrastructure to access the vSphere private and public clouds.
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Application Services uses a CAL to plug in cloud providers. It automates deployments to the
vCloud Director, the vSphere through vRealize Automation, and the Amazon EC2 cloud environment.
vCloud Director uses open standards like the vCloud API and the Open Virtualization Format (OVF).
Application Services integrates with vCloud Director through the publicly available IaaS API that is
based on vCloud. This integration allows you to deploy applications in private and public deployments
of vCloud Director clouds.
vCloud Automation Center uses REST APIs to deploy applications to the vSphere private and public
clouds.
Application Services uses the Amazon AWS APIs and Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) to deploy
applications to the Amazon EC2 cloud.
Application Services Extensibility and Open Architecture
Application Services is optimized for vCloud components and is extensible to other components.
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The Application Services library has predefined (out-of-the-box) services or applications for
middleware services. In addition, you can add pointers to virtual machine templates residing in cloud
libraries. The Application Services library also lets you add definitions of dynamically installable
custom services on virtual machine templates using install, configure, start, update, rollback, and
teardown scripts, and appropriate configurations.
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Deployment execution plans are generated by the system based on the blueprint. These plans help
users to track the status and progress of tasks during deployment.
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