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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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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.
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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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