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Contents
Foundations and Concepts 5
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Updated Information 6
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Foundations and Concepts 7
Using Scenarios 7
Using the Goal Navigator 7
Introducing vRealize Automation 8
Providing On-Demand Services to Users Overview 8
vRealize Business for Cloud Overview 15
Tenancy and User Roles 15
Tenancy Overview 15
User Roles Overview 20
Service Catalog 28
Requesting and Managing Items in the Catalog 28
Creating and Publishing Catalog Items 29
Services for the Service Catalog 29
Catalog Items 29
Actions 30
Entitlements 30
Approval Policies 31
Infrastructure as a Service 31
Configuring Infrastructure Fabric 33
Infrastructure Source Endpoints 33
Compute Resources 34
Data Collection 34
Fabric Groups 35
Business Groups 36
Machine Prefixes 36
Resource Reservations 36
Configuring Reservation Policies 37
Machine Blueprints 38
Machine Leases and Reclamation 38
Scaling and Reconfiguring Deployments 39
XaaS Blueprints and Resource Actions 41
Creating XaaS Blueprints and Actions 42
Custom Resources 42
Resource Mappings 43
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