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Table Of Contents
- Foundations and Concepts
- Contents
- Foundations and Concepts
- Updated Information
- Using Scenarios
- Using the Goal Navigator
- Introducing vRealize Automation
- Tenancy and User Roles
- Service Catalog
- Infrastructure as a Service
- XaaS Blueprints and Resource Actions
- Common Components
- Life Cycle Extensibility
- vRealize Automation Extensibility Options
- Leveraging Existing and Future Infrastructure
- Configuring Business-Relevant Services
- Extending vRealize Automation with Event-Based Workflows
- Integrating with Third-Party Management Systems
- Adding New IT Services and Creating New Actions
- Calling vRealize Automation Services from External Applications
- Distributed Execution
- Index
When the fabric administrator has created reservations, the IaaS architects can create and publish machine
blueprints for reuse in application blueprints and for catalog administrators to make available in the service
catalog.
Infrastructure Source Endpoints
Infrastructure sources can include a group of virtualization compute resources or a cloud service account.
An IaaS administrator congures an infrastructure source by specifying the endpoint details and credentials
that vRealize Automation can use to communicate with the source.
vRealize Automation collects information about all congured infrastructure sources at regular intervals.
This information includes virtualization hosts, templates, and ISO images for virtualization environments;
virtual datacenters for vCloud Director; and regions and machines provisioned on them for Amazon.
Table 6. Examples of Infrastructure Source Endpoints
Infrastructure Source Endpoints
vSphere vCenter server
vCloud Air vCloud Air OnDemand or subscription service
vCloud Director vCloud Director server
Amazon EC2 or OpenStack Cloud service account
Hyper-V (SCVMM) Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager server
KVM (RHEV) Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization server
For a complete list of supported infrastructure source endpoints, see the vRealize Automation Support Matrix.
Compute Resources
A compute resource is an object that represents a host, host cluster, or pool in a virtualization platform, a
virtual datacenter, or an Amazon region on which machines can be provisioned.
An IaaS administrator can add compute resources to or remove compute resources from a fabric group. A
compute resource can belong to more than one fabric group, including groups that dierent fabric
administrators manage. After a compute resource is added to a fabric group, a fabric administrator can
create reservations on it for specic business groups. Users in those business groups can then be entitled to
provision machines on that compute resource.
Information about the compute resources on each infrastructure source endpoint and machines provisioned
on each compute resource is collected at regular intervals.
Table 7. Examples of Compute Resources for Infrastructure Sources
Infrastructure Source Compute Resource
vSphere (vCenter) ESX or ESXi host or cluster
Hyper-V (SCVMM) Hyper-V host
KVM (RHEV) KVM host
vCloud Director virtual datacenter
Amazon AWS Amazon region
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