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Table Of Contents
Contents
Foundations and Concepts 5
Updated Information 5
Using Scenarios 6
Using the Goal Navigator 6
Introducing vRealize Automation 6
Providing On-Demand Services to Users Overview 7
vRealize Business for Cloud Overview 12
Tenancy and User Roles 12
Tenancy Overview 12
User Roles Overview 16
Service Catalog 22
Requesting and Managing Items in the Catalog 23
Creating and Publishing Catalog Items 23
Services for the Service Catalog 23
Catalog Items 24
Actions 24
Entitlements 24
Approval Policies 25
Infrastructure as a Service 25
Conguring Infrastructure Fabric 26
Infrastructure Source Endpoints 27
Compute Resources 27
Data Collection 28
Fabric Groups 29
Business Groups 29
Machine Prexes 29
Resource Reservations 29
Conguring Reservation Policies 30
Machine Blueprints 30
Machine Leases and Reclamation 31
Scaling and Reconguring Deployments 32
XaaS Blueprints and Resource Actions 34
Creating XaaS Blueprints and Actions 34
Custom Resources 34
Resource Mappings 35
XaaS Blueprints 35
Resource Actions 35
Designing Forms for XaaS Blueprints and Actions 35
Common Components 36
Notications 36
Branding 38
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