7.3
Table Of Contents
- Foundations and Concepts
- Contents
- Foundations and Concepts
- Updated Information
- Foundations and Concepts
- 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
vRealize Business for Cloud Overview
With vRealize Business for Cloud, directors of cloud operations can monitor their expenditures and
design more price-efficient cloud services.
vRealize Business for Cloud provides the following benefits:
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Drives accountability by providing visibility into the price of virtual infrastructure and public cloud
providers and providing daily price and month-to-date expense updates in vRealize Automation.
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Promotes efficiencies in the virtual infrastructure by making it possible to compare the prices,
efficiency, and availability of their private cloud with public cloud providers and industry benchmark
data.
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Optimizes decisions about placement for virtual workloads and tradeoffs between buying new
hardware and using public cloud providers.
For more information about vRealize Business for Cloud, see the vRealize Business for Cloud
documentation.
Tenancy and User Roles
vRealize Automation supports multiple tenants in the same installation. Users always log in and perform
their tasks in a specific tenant. Some administrator roles can manage configuration that affects multiple
tenants.
Tenancy Overview
A tenant is an organizational unit in a vRealize Automation deployment. A tenant can represent a
business unit in an enterprise or a company that subscribes to cloud services from a service provider.
Each tenant has its own dedicated configuration. Some system-level configuration is shared across
tenants.
Table 2‑1. Tenant Configuration
Configuration Area Description
Login URL Each tenant has a unique URL to the vRealize Automation console.
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The default tenant URL is in the following format: https://hostname/vcac
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The URL for additional tenants is in the following format:
https://hostname/vcac/org/tenantURL
Identity stores Each tenant requires access to one or more directory services, such as OpenLDAP or
Microsoft Active Directory servers, that are configured to authenticate users. You can
use the same directory service for more than one tenant, but you must configure it
separately for each tenant.
Branding A tenant administrator can configure the branding of the vRealize Automation console
including the logo, background color, and information in the header and footer. System
administrators control the default branding for all tenants.
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