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You can improve cost control by using vRealize Automation to monitor resource and capacity usage. For
further cost control management, you can integrate vRealize Business Advanced or Enterprise Edition with
your vRealize Automation instance to expose the cost of cloud and virtual machine resources, and help you
beer manage capacity, cost, and eciency.
Providing On-Demand Services to Users Overview
You can use the IaaS, Software, and XaaS features of vRealize Automation to model custom on-demand IT
services and deliver them to your users through the vRealize Automation common service catalog.
Catalog items can range in complexity from a single, simple machine with no guest operating system to
complex custom application stacks delivered on multiple machine under a load balancer.
You can create and publish blueprints for a single machine, or a single custom XaaS resource, but you can
also combine machine blueprints and XaaS blueprints with other building blocks to design elaborate
application blueprints that include multiple machines, networking and security, software with full life cycle
support, and custom XaaS functionality. Because all published blueprints and blueprint components are
reusable, you can create a library of these components and combine them in new blueprints to deliver
increasingly complex on-demand services.
Published blueprints become catalog items that your service catalog administrators can deliver to your
users. The service catalog provides a unied self-service portal for consuming IT services. Service catalog
administrators can manage user access to catalog services, items, and actions by using entitlements and
approvals, and users can browse the catalog to request items they need, track their requests, and manage
their provisioned items.
Foundations and Concepts
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