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
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Fabric Groups
An IaaS administrator can organize virtualization compute resources and cloud endpoints into fabric
groups by type and intent. One or more fabric administrators manage the resources in each fabric
group.
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Business Groups
A business group associates a set of services and resources to a set of users, often corresponding
to a line of business, department, or other organizational unit.
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Machine Prefixes
You use machine prefixes to generate the names of provisioned machines. Machine prefixes are
shared across all tenants.
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Resource Reservations
You can create a reservation to allocate provisioning resources in the fabric group to a specific
business group.
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Configuring Reservation Policies
When a user requests a machine, it can be provisioned on any reservation of the appropriate type
that has sufficient capacity for the machine. You can apply a reservation policy to a blueprint to
restrict the machines provisioned from that blueprint to a subset of available reservations.
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Machine Blueprints
A blueprint that contains a machine component specifies the workflow used to provision a machine
and includes information such as CPU, memory, and storage. Machine blueprints specify the
workflow used to provision a machine and include additional provisioning information such as the
locations of required disk images or virtualization platform objects. Blueprints also specify policies
such as the lease period and can include networking and security components such as security
groups, policies, or tags.
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Machine Leases and Reclamation
Machine lease and reclamation options provides mechanisms for controlling resource use and
controlling prices.
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Scaling and Reconfiguring Deployments
You can scale provisioned deployments to adjust to changing workload demands. You use the scale
in or scale out actions for horizontal scale, and the machine reconfigure action for vertical scale. You
govern scale and reconfigure actions by using entitlements, approval policies, or by designing
constraints directly into blueprints.
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