7.4

System administrators control the default branding for all tenants. A tenant administrator can change the
branding of the portal including the login pages, logo, the background color, and the information in the
header and footer. If the branding for a tenant is changed, a tenant administrator can always revert back
to the system defaults.
Life Cycle Extensibility
The architecture of vRealize Automation is designed with extensibility in mind. To satisfy different
extensibility use cases, vRealize Automation offers a variety of configuration options and tools.
vRealize Automation Extensibility Options
vRealize Automation is a flexible cloud management platform that enables customization and extensibility
at multiple levels.
VM VM VM
VM VM VM
VM VM VM
VM VM VM
VM VM VM
VM VM VM
1. Leverage existing and future infrastructure
Windows
amazon
web services
vmware
vCloud
Provider
vmware
vCloud
VMware
vSphere
Microsoft
Hyper-V
CITRIX
Xen
LINUX
Physical
Virtual
Cloud
vRealize Automation
vRealize Automation RESTAPI
Policy Management Design Center
Multi-vendor,
Multi-cloud
Advanced Services
Designer
5. Call vRealize Automation services
from existing applications
ServiceNow PMG Remedy
Homegrown service catalog
Compute Infrastructure (virtual, physical,
public cloud)
Software deployment methodologies
3. Integrate with
3rd party
management
systems
CMDB
DNS
IPAM
Load Balancers
Service Desk
Monitoring
Storage
Databases
Web Services
Etc.
4. Add new IT
services and
create new
day-2 operations
Storage as a
Service, Load
Balancing as a
Service, etc.
Backup a VM,
open a ticket or
a machine, etc.
vRealize
Orchestrator
IT Process
Automation
2. Configure business-
relevant services
Specify provisioning
methodology
Service entitlements
Custom properties
Resource reservations
Specify custom
machine/OS properties
Etc.
Leveraging Existing and Future Infrastructure
vRealize Automation provides support for many types of infrastructure and provisioning methods.
IaaS administrators can integrate with several infrastructure sources including virtual hypervisors, such as
vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM (RHEV), and so on, public clouds including VMware vCloud
®
Air ™ and Amazon
AWS, and physical infrastructure.
Blueprint authors can control many machine options, including provisioning methods, by configuring
blueprints for various types of infrastructure.
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