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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
Foundations and Concepts
VMware vRealize ™ Automation provides a secure portal where authorized administrators, developers, or
business users can request new IT services. In addition, they can manage specic cloud and IT resources that
enable IT organizations to deliver services that can be congured to their lines of business in a self-service
catalog.
This documentation describes the features and capabilities of vRealize Automation. It includes information
about the following subjects:
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vRealize Automation components
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Common service catalog
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Infrastructure as a Service
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XaaS
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Software
For information about cost management for VMware vRealize ™ Automation, see the documentation for
VMware vRealize ™ Business ™ for Cloud.
Note Not all features and capabilities of vRealize Automation are available in all editions. For a
comparison of feature sets in each edition, see hps://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-automation/.
Intended Audience
This information is intended for anyone who needs to familiarize themselves with the features and
capabilities of vRealize Automation.
VMware Technical Publications Glossary
VMware Technical Publications provides a glossary of terms that might be unfamiliar to you. For denitions
of terms as they are used in VMware technical documentation, go to
hp://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.
Updated Information
This Foundations and Concepts is updated with each release of the product or when necessary.
This table provides the update history of the Foundations and Concepts.
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