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The actions that you entitle to users apply to any items that support the entitled action and they are not
limited to the services and actions in the same entitlement. For example, if Connie, a consumer of
infrastructure services, is entitled to Machine Blueprint 1 and the action Reconfigure in one entitlement,
and she is also entitled to Machine Blueprint 2 in a different entitlement, then she is entitled to reconfigure
machines provisioned from Machine Blueprint 1 and Machine Blueprint 2, as long as both blueprints allow
that action to be performed.
If multiple entitlements exist for the same business group, you can prioritize the entitlements. When a
user makes a catalog request, the entitlement and associated approval policy that applies is the highest
priority entitlement that grants the user access to that item or action.
Approval Policies
An approval policy is used to govern whether a service catalog user needs approval from someone in
your organization to provision items in your environment.
A tenant administrator or approval administrator can create approval policies. The policies can be for pre-
provisioning or post-provisioning. If a pre-approval is configured, then the request must be approved
before the request is provisioned. If it is a post-approval, the request must be approved before the
provisioned item is released to the requesting user.
The policies are applied to items in an entitlement. You can apply them to services, catalog items, catalog
item components, or actions that require an approver to approve or reject a provisioning request.
When a service catalog user requests an item that includes one or more approval policies, the approval
request is sent to the approvers. If approved, the request moves forward. If rejected, the request is
canceled and the service catalog user is notified regarding the rejection.
Infrastructure as a Service
With Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), you can rapidly model and provision servers and desktops across
virtual and physical, private and public, or hybrid cloud infrastructures.
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Configuring Infrastructure Fabric
The IaaS administrator and fabric administrator roles are responsible for configuring the fabric to
enable provisioning of infrastructure services. Fabric configuration is system-wide and is shared
across all tenants.
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Infrastructure Source Endpoints
Infrastructure sources can include a group of virtualization compute resources or a cloud service
account.
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Compute Resources
A compute resource is an object that represents a host, host cluster, or pool in a virtualization
platform, a virtual datacenter, or an Amazon region on which machines can be provisioned.
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Data Collection
vRealize Automation collects data from infrastructure source endpoints and their compute
resources.
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