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Table Of Contents
- Advanced Service Design
- Contents
- Advanced Service Design
- Updated Information for Advanced Service Design
- Using the Goal Navigator
- Introduction to VMware vRealize Orchestrator
- Configuring vRealize Orchestrator and Plug-Ins
- Authoring Services with Advanced Service Designer
- Advanced Service Designer Basics
- Creating an Advanced Service Overview
- Create a Custom Resource
- Create a Service Blueprint
- Publish a Service Blueprint as a Catalog Item
- Create a Resource Action
- Publish a Resource Action
- Assign an Icon to a Resource Action
- Create a Service
- Associate a Catalog Item with a Service
- Create an Approval Policy for Advanced Service Blueprints and Actions
- Entitle a Service, Catalog Items, and Actions to a User or a Group of Users
- Extending Operations on Resources Provisioned by Other Sources
- Importing and Exporting Advanced Service Designer Components
- Form Designer
- Advanced Service Designer Examples and Scenarios
- Create a Service for Creating and Modifying a User
- Create a Test User as a Custom Resource
- Create a Service Blueprint for Creating a User
- Publish the Create a User Blueprint as a Catalog Item
- Create a Resource Action to Change a User Password
- Publish the Change a Password Resource Action
- Create a Service for Creating a Test User
- Associate the Catalog Item with the Create a Test User Service
- Entitle the Service and the Resource Action to a Consumer
- Create and Publish an Action to Migrate a Virtual Machine
- Create an Action to Migrate a Virtual Machine With vMotion
- Create and Publish an Action to Take a Snapshot
- Create and Publish an Action to Start an Amazon Virtual Machine
- Creating a Data Refresh Service Offering
- Create a Service for Creating and Modifying a User
3 Publish the Action for Starting Amazon Instances
To use the newly created Start Instances resource action for post-provisioning operations on
Amazon virtual machines, you must publish it.
You created and published a vRealize Orchestrator workflow as a resource action. You can navigate to
Administration > Catalog Management > Actions and see the Start Instances resource action for EC2
Instance resource types. You can assign an icon to the resource action. See Assign an Icon to a
Resource Action.
What to do next
Business group managers and tenant administrators can assign the Start Instances resource action to an
entitlement.
Create a Resource Mapping for Amazon Instances
You can create a resource mapping to associate Amazon instances provisioned by using IaaS with the
vRealize Orchestrator type AWS:EC2Instance exposed by the Amazon Web Services plug-in.
Prerequisites
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Log in to the vRealize Automation console as a service architect.
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Create or import a vRealize Orchestrator resource mapping workflow or script action.
Procedure
1 Select Advanced Services > Resource Mappings.
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Click Add ( ).
3 Enter EC2 Instance in the Name text box.
4 Enter Cloud Machine in the Catalog Resource Type text box.
5 Enter AWS:EC2Instance in the Orchestrator Type text box.
6 Select Always available.
7 Select the type of resource mapping to use.
8 Select your custom resource mapping script action or workflow from the vRealize Orchestrator library.
9 Click Add.
You can use your Amazon resource mapping to create resource actions for Amazon machines
provisioned by using IaaS.
What to do next
Create a resource action for Amazon instances.
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