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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
Procedure
1 Select Advanced Services > Resource Actions.
2 Select the row of the Start Instances resource action, and click Publish.
The status of the Start Instances resource action changes to Published.
What to do next
Assign an icon to the Start Instances resource action.
Creating a Data Refresh Service Oering
By using vRealize Orchestrator, Application Services, Advanced Service Designer, and IaaS, you can
create an advanced service offering to refresh external database backups in a golden database node,
mask the data, and clone the database nodes without increasing storage costs.
Data Refresh is a database-oriented feature that uses components to provide a complete feature in
vRealize Automation. Data Refresh helps you refresh the external database backup. The components
include vRealize Orchestrator, Application Services, IaaS, Advanced Service Designer and Service
Catalog. Data Refresh duplicates the copies of databases from one environment to another. For example,
a developer or a test engineer can refresh the database from production to development or testing.
Data Refresh helps you refresh the external database backups in a golden database node, mask the data
in the golden database, and clone any number of database nodes from the golden database node without
increasing storage costs. A golden database is a database instance that contains preset data obtained
through import and mask operations. The golden database is in a template node. You can duplicate
multiple copies of a golden database and clone from the template node.
The Data Refresh process consists of the following phases.
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Provisioning a golden database node
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Requesting a golden database clone
You must prepare an environment before users can provision and request to clone a database.
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Complete the vRealize Automation environment preparation. For more information, see Preparing a
Data Refresh Environment Checklist.
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The database administrator (DBA) configures Application Services, including application and
deployment profile.
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DBA configures the data refresh service catalog through Advanced Service Designer and
vRealize Automation.
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DBA requests the golden database node with the prepared mask data SQL script.
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Trigger cloning by DBA or by the vRealize Automation user.
The DBA uses data refresh repeatedly. vRealize Automation allows DBAs to define their own data refresh
workflow to generate a golden database and clone the golden database.
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