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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.
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.
An IaaS administrator creates an endpoint to configure access to an infrastructure source. When the
connection to an infrastructure source is established, vRealize Automation collects information about the
compute resources available through that source. The IaaS administrator can then organize those
resources into fabric groups and assign a fabric administrator to manage each group as well as cross-
tenant configuration such as machine prefixes.
A fabric administrator can create reservations to allocate provisioning resources in the fabric group to
specific business groups that the tenant administrator created during tenant configuration. Optionally, the
fabric administrator can configure reservation, network, or storage reservation policies. For example, they
can create a reservation policy to control placement of provisioned machines.
When the fabric administrator has created reservations, the IaaS architects can create and publish
machine blueprints for reuse in application blueprints and for catalog administrators to make available in
the service catalog.
Infrastructure Source Endpoints
Infrastructure sources can include a group of virtualization compute resources or a cloud service account.
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