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The goal navigator can answer the following questions:
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Where do I start?
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What are all the steps I need to complete to achieve a goal?
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What are the prerequisites for completing a particular task?
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Why do I need to do this step and how does this step help me achieve my goal?
The goal navigator is hidden by default. You can expand the goal navigator by clicking the icon on the left
side of the screen.
After you select a goal, you navigate between the pages needed to accomplish the goal by clicking each
step. The goal navigator does not validate that you completed a step, or force you to complete steps in a
particular order. The steps are listed in the recommended sequence. You can return to each goal as many
times as needed.
For each step, the goal navigator provides a description of the task you need to perform on the
corresponding page. The goal navigator does not provide detailed information such as how to complete
the forms on a page. You can hide the page information or move it to a more convenient position on the
page. If you hide the page information, you can display it again by clicking the information icon on the
goal navigator panel.
Introducing vRealize Automation
IT organizations can use VMware vRealize ™ Automation to deliver services to their lines of business.
vRealize Automation provides a secure portal where authorized administrators, developers, or business
users can request new IT services and manage specific cloud and IT resources, while ensuring
compliance with business policies. Requests for IT services, including infrastructure, applications,
desktops, and many others, are processed through a common service catalog to provide a consistent
user experience.
To improve cost control, you can integrate vRealize Business for Cloud with your vRealize Automation
instance to expose the month-to-date expense of cloud and virtual machine resources, and help you
better manage capacity, price, and efficiency.
Note Beginning with version 7.3, vRealize Automation supports only vRealize Business for Cloud
version 7.3 and later.
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.
You use blueprints to define machine deployment settings. Published blueprints become catalog items,
and are the means by which entitled users provision machine deployments. Catalog items can range in
complexity from a single, simple machine with no guest operating system to complex custom application
stacks delivered on multiple machines under an NSX load balancer with networking and security controls.
Foundations and Concepts
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